Top 10 Pierre Abelard Quotes at QuotationFun

Displaying Top 10 Pierre Abelard quotes

All Pierre Abelard Quotes

Our Biography page will tell you more about Pierre Abelard

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

Letter 8 to Heloise -

Share

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. There, where no trouble distraction can bring, we the sweet anthems of Zion shall sing, while for thy grace, Lord, their voices of praise thy blessed people eternally raise. Now, in the meantime, with hearts raised on high, we for that country must yearn and must sigh, seeking Jerusalem, dear native land, through the long exile on Babylon's strand. Low before him with our praises we fall, of whom, and in whom, and through whom are all; of whom, the Father; and in whom, the Son; through whom, the Spirit, with both ever one.

Hymnus Paraclitensis, On Heaven.

Share

How mighty are the Sabbaths, How mighty and how deep, That the high courts of heaven To everlasting keep.

Sabbato ad Vesperas -

Share

Often the hearts of men and women are stirred, as likewise they are soothed in their sorrows, more by example than by words. And therefore, because I too have known some consolation from speech had with one who was a witness thereof, am I now minded to write of the sufferings which have sprung out of my misfortunes, for the eyes of one who, though absent, is of himself ever a consoler. This I do so that, in comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought, or at the most but of small account, and so shall you come to bear them more easily.

Historia Calamitatum - Abaelardi ad Amicum Suum Consolatoria, written in the form of a letter.

Share

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom. For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Share

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.

Ethica, seu Scito Teipsum, Book 1.

Share

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Share

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.

Share

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.

Share

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Share

Like or Follow us

Popular Authors

▪ Manzar Ayubi
▪ Vera Lynn
▪ Jean Smith
▪ Nawaz Sharif
▪ Imran Khan
▪ Tariq Aziz
▪ Sabiha Khanum
▪ Sushant Rajput
▪ Wes Unseld