It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENAll living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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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.
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You are the mountain and the valley.
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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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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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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.
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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 truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
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I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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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.
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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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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.
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These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.
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There is the music of Heaven in all things.
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The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
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