Quotes from Hildegard of Bingen
There is the music of Heaven in all things.
- Hildegard of Bingen
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 Bingen
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
- Hildegard of Bingen
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 Bingen
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.
- Hildegard of Bingen
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.
- Hildegard of Bingen
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
- Hildegard of Bingen
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.
- Hildegard of Bingen
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
- Hildegard of Bingen
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
- Hildegard of Bingen
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
- Hildegard of Bingen
You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.
- Hildegard of Bingen