Number of quotes found: 26
- god
- love
- creation
- every
- human
- wisdom
- creature
- may
- world
- joy
- things
- nothing
- rather
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- sun
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- spirit
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- works
- heart
- like
- become
- law
- creatures
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I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows. I gleam in the waters. I burn in the sun, moon, and stars. With every breeze, as with invisible life that contains everything, I awaken everything to life. I am the breeze that nurtures all things green. I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits. I am the rain coming from the dew that causes the grasses to laugh with the joy of life.
Source: Scivias - 1152
How wonderful
is the wisdom
in the God-head’s heart.
It is the heart that sees
the primordial eternity
of every creature.
When God gazes upon the countenance
of humankind,
the face that he moulded,
he contemplates this creation
in its entirety,
its totality in this human form.
How wonderful is this breath then,
this breath that awakened humankind.
Source: Symphonia Caelestium
O Eternal God, now may it please you
to burn in love
so that we become the limbs
fashioned in the love you felt
when you begot your Son
at the first dawn
before all creation.
And consider this need which falls upon us,
take it from us for the sake of your Son,
and lead us to the joy of your salvation.
Source: O Eterne Deus: Oh Eternal God
I compare
the great love
of Creator and creation
to the same love and fidelity
with which God
binds woman and man
together.
This is so
that together
they might be creatively fruitful
Source: Quoted in Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen - 1983
O Beloved,
your way of knowing is amazing!
The way you recognize every creature
even before it appears.
The way you gaze into the face
of every human being
and see all your works gazing back at you.
O what a miracle
to be awake inside your breathing.
Source: Symphonia Caelestium
When in the fullness of its time
this creation wilts,
its vigor returns to its own source.
This is the underlying natural law.
When the elements of the world fulfill their function,
they come to ripeness
and their fruit is gathered back to God.
Source: Quoted in Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen - 1983
The devil keeps man from good with a thousand machinations spewed from his belly, so that when a person sighs to do good, he pierces him with his shafts; and when he desires to embrace God with his whole heart in love, he subjects him to poisonous tribulations, seeking to pervert good work before God. And when a person seeks the viridity of virtue, the devil tells him that he does not know what he is doing, and he teaches him that he can set his own law for himself.
Source: Letter to an Abbot - c. 1166
God desires
that all the world
be pure in his sight.
The earth should not be injured.
The earth should not be destroyed.
Source: Quoted in Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen - 1983
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, and these sparks emerge from God like the rays of the sun. If God did not give off these sparks, how would the divine flame become fully visible?
Source: Scivias - 1152
Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things.
Source: Caritas Abundat
I reach out my hand to God that He may carry me along as a feather is borne weightlessly by the wind…
Source: Scivias - 1152
The soul that is full of wisdom is saturated with the spray of a bubbling fountain – God himself.
Source: Quoted in Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen - 1983
I, a mere female and fragile vessel, speak these things not from me but from a serene Light.
Source: Scivias - 1152
All of creation is a symphony of the Holy Spirit which is joy and jubilation.
Source: Quoted in Meditations with Hildegard of Bingen - 1983





