Category:Saint Anselm

Saint Anselm of Canterbury Born: c. 1033 in Aosta, Kingdom of Burgundy Died: 21 April 1109 (aged 75) in Canterbury, Kent, England Feast: 21 April Attributes: Portrayed with a ship, representing the spiritual independence of the Church.

Quotations from Saint Anselm
Ergo domine...credimus te esse aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit. Therefore, Lord...we believe that you are something than which nothing greater can be thought. Proslogion, ch. 2; Gregory Schufreider Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm's Early Writings (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1994) pp. 324-5.

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. Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 123.

God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived. In Mary for Earth and Heaven: Essays on Mary and Ecumenism, 2002, William McLaughlin, Jill Pinnock, eds., Gracewing.