Quotes from Hildegard of Bingen

There is the music of Heaven in all things.

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.

With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

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.

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.

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.

God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.

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.

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.

It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.

Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fhe Creator and Lord of all so loved the world, that He sent His Son for its salvation, the Prince and Savior of the faithful, who washed and dried our wounds, and from Him also came that most sweet medicine, from which all the good things of salvation flow.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

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.

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.

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.