| Author Quoted | Anselmus of Canterbury |
| Title Quoted | Opera Omnia / ed. by Franciscus Salesius Schmitt o.s.b. |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/02/13 |
| Imprint | Edinburg : [s.n.]. 1951 |
| Quotation | St. Anselm, to a monk-to meditate on death and then: "Ab inceptis ergo nulla lassitudine deficias, sed potius quae tibi expediunt et quae nondum es agres-sus, in spe superni auxilii pro amore beatipraemi incipias, ut ad sanctorum beatum consortium Christo ducente pervenias." ["Do not let laziness stop you from what you have begun; rather, begin doing what you need to do, and what you have not yet done, out of love for a blessed reward, and in hope of divine help, so that, with Christ as your guide, you may arrive at the blessed fellowship of the saints."] (Epistle 35.Schmitt III.143) |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 76 |
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