The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENGod has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
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You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.
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You are the mountain and the valley.
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A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.
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With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
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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.
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We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.
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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.
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Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.
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All of creation is a song of praise to God.
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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.
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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.
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
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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.
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