St. Anselm quote: "Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of thine... shall rejoice according as they shall love; and they shall love according as they shall know. How far they will know thee, Lord, then! and how much they will love thee!"

Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u...
ST. ANSELM

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. S...
ANSELM KIEFER

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
ANSELM KIEFER

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place b...
ANSELM KIEFER

Theology is anthropology.
ANSELM FEUERBACH

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
ANSELM FEUERBACH

Theology is Anthropology
ANSELM FEUERBACH

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of ...
ANSELM KIEFER

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dive...
ANSELM KIEFER

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life...
ANSELM KIEFER

I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, wh...
ANSELM KIEFER

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
ANSELM KIEFER

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right t...
ANSELM FEUERBACH

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only...
ANSELM KIEFER

The Wise Virgins
ANSELM KIEFER

When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or no...
ANSELM KIEFER

When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in German...
ANSELM KIEFER

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right th...
ANSELM FEURBAH

Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you ga...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 For I seek not to under...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that c...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

If it can be conceived at all - it must exist.
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you a...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY

The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME

Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse mee...
ST. VINCENT

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had peo...
ST. VINCENT

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE

Prayer is a groan.
ST. JEROME

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
ST. BASIL

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
ST. BERNARD

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l...
ST. BASIL

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL

God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME

I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT

The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT

Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA

If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY

No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST.

I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process,
ST. AMBROSE

Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE

There is no time of life past learning something.
ST. AMBROSE

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT

St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no...
ST. LUCIA

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course...
ST. AUGUSTINE

At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE

But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
ST. JEROME

Quick enough, if good enough.
ST. JEROME

Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME

Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!
ST. JEROME

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
ST. JEROME

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
ST. BASIL

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD ST.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
ST. AUGUSTINE

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departe...
ST AUGUSTINE

The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.
ST. AMBROSE

Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
ST. CYPRIAN

Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot...
ST. BONAVENTURE

Nothing can work me damage except myself.
ST. BERNARD

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A man's personality actuates and qui...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fea...
ST. AMBROSE

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 It is a great mystery of divine love, that not ev...
ST. AMBROSE

Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa...
ST. AMBROSE

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to s...
ST. AMBROSE

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
ST. AMBROSE

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the...
ST. ALCUIN

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE

Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T...
ST. TERESA

Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr...
ST. JEROME

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmo...
ST. CYPRIAN

Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose...
ST. CYPRIAN

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME

It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#...
ST. LUCIA

I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
ST. LUCIA

I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so...
ST. LUCIA

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your ...
ST. LUCIA

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT

We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN

And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN

I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they...
LARA ST. JOHN

Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be som...
LARA ST. JOHN

I thought that maybe it is not so much, as he seems to think, that the world loses interest in femal...
LARA ST. JOHN

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
LARA ST. JOHN

Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get ...
LARA ST. JOHN

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
LARA ST. JOHN

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
LARA ST. JOHN

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ...
LARA ST. JOHN

When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
LARA ST. JOHN

There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or ...
LARA ST. JOHN

Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of thine... shall rejoice according as they shall love; and they shall love according as they shall know. How far they will know thee, Lord, then! and how much they will love thee!

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Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of thine... shall rejoice according as they shall love; and they shall love according as they shall know. How far they will know thee, Lord, then! and how much they will love thee!

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