Hildegard Of Bingen Quotes
Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world—everything is hidden in you.
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.
A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.
I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.
Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.
I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things. She has given the king on high the kiss of peace.
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.
Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.
Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
What I do not see I do not know. I see, hear and know simultaneously and learn what I know as if in a moment.
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook, The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.