Anselm of Canterbury
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Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian-born prelate and scholastic theologian, who moved first to Normandy and then to England. He was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 until his death.
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- 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, ISBN 0852445563 ISBN 9780852445563 pp. 115-116. [1]
