List of Peter Abelard Quotes

O What Their Joy And Their Glory Must Be, Those Endless Sabbaths The Blessed Ones See! Crowns For The Valiant, For Weary Ones Rest: God Shall Be All, And In All Ever Blest. Truly Jerusalem Name We That Shore, Vision Of Peace That Brings Hope Evermore; Wish And Fulfillment Shall Severed Be Ne'er, Nor The Thing Prayed For Come Short Of The Prayer.

By Doubting We Are Led To Enquire, And By Enquiry We Perceive The Truth.

In Doubting We Come To Inquiry; By Inquiry We Perceive The Truth.

Alone Thou Goest Forth, O Lord, In Sacrifice To Die; Is This Thy Sorrow Naught To Us Who Pass Unheeding By? Our Sins, Not Thine, Thou Bearest, Lord; Make Us Thy Sorrow Feel, Till Through Our Pity And Our Shame Love Answers Love's Appeal. This Is Earth's Darkest Hour, But Thou Dost Light And Life Restore; Then Let All Praise Be Given Thee Who Livest Evermore. Grant Us With Thee To Suffer Pain That, As We Share This Hour, Thy Cross May Bring Us To Thy Joy And Resurrection Power.

The Purpose And Cause Of The Incarnation Was That He Might Illuminate The World By His Wisdom And Excite It To The Love Of Himself.

In Comparing Your Sorrows With Mine, You May Discover That Yours Are In Truth Nought.. And So Shall You Come To Bear Them The More Easily Grateful That They Are Not Worse.

Chess Is A Good Way To Learn, To Keep Your Brain Fit And The Ego In Check, A Mental Form Of Your Local Gymnasium. Those Who See Chess Merely As A Means Of Self-proof Make The Game Experience Uncomfortable And Drive Many Of The Better, More Sensitive Brains To Analysis, Correspondence, Problems, Studies And The Like.

The Men Who Abandon Themselves To The Passions Of This Miserable Life, Are Compared In Scripture To Beasts.

The Son Of God Took Our Nature, And In It Took Upon Himself To Teach Us By Both Word And Example Even To The Point Of Death, Thus Binding Us To Himself Through Love.

In Fact We Say That An Intention Is Good, That Is, Right In Itself, But That An Action Does Not Bear Any Good In Itself But Proceeds From A Good Intention. Whence When The Same Thing Is Done By The Same Man At Different Times, By The Diversity Of His Intention, However, His Action Is Now Said To Be Good, Now Bad.

We Call An Intention Good Which Is Right In Itself, But The Action Is Good, Not Because It Contains Within It Some Good, But Because It Issues From A Good Intention.

Are You Not Moved To Tears And Bitter Compassion, When You Behold The Only Son Of God Seized By The Most Impious, Dragged Away, Mocked, Scourged, Buffeted, Spit Upon, Crowned With Thorns, Hung Upon The Infamous Cross Between Two Thieves, Finally In Such A Horrible And Execrable Manner Suffering Death, For Your Salvation And That Of The World?