Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. - Anselm of Canterbury - Quotesmemo.com

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Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished.

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Anselm of Canterbury

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

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For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

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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.

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Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

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God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

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I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

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