God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.