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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENEven in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.
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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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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
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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.
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The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.
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If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.
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Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things . All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive.
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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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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.
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I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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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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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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The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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All of creation is a song of praise to God.
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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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