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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENRivers 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.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
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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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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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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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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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With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
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The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.
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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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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.
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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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All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
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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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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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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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