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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENGod has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
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Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music.
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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.
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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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The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.
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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.
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
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The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
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The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.
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All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
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Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
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Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
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All of creation is a song of praise to God.
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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.
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O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.
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