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.
Peter AbelardIn 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.
Peter AbelardThe beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Peter AbelardThe purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
Peter AbelardO 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.
Peter Abelard