Top 74 Hildegard's Quotes

#1. 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

Hildegard's Quotes #7073
#2. The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #40730
#3. Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music ...

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #61104
#4. Lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #65407
#5. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #74875
#6. Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1189) with her prophetic gift and depth of vision, was the first to describe the healing powers of food. Hildegard's nutritional approach is simple and healthy

Wighard Strehlow

Hildegard's Quotes #163394
#7. The fire has its flame and praises God.
The wind blows the flame and praises God.
In the voice we hear the word which praises God.
And the word, when heard, praises God.
So all of creation is a song of praise to God.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #248685
#8. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #253992
#9. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #259869
#10. O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #273411
#11. I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #278443
#12. All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #285883
#13. Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder.

Hildegard Hamm-Brucher

Hildegard's Quotes #344890
#14. Stephen D'Evelyn, a scholar working primarily on Hildegard's Symphonia, was a teaching assistant in my 2005 course on "Hildegard and the Gospels" and a valuable discussion partner for the translations we looked at in class.

Beverly Mayne Kienzle

Hildegard's Quotes #395862
#15. The marvels of God are not brought forth from one's self. Rather, it is more like a chord, a sound that is played. The tone does not come out of the chord itself, but rather, through the touch of the musician. I am, of course, the lyre and harp of God's kindness.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #416396
#16. You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #417807
#17. What I do not see I do not know. I see, hear and know simultaneously and learn what I know as if in a moment.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #460606
#18. 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

Hildegard's Quotes #463001
#19. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #486652
#20. Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #499537
#21. The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #536629
#22. Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #543160
#23. Even in a world that's being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #549653
#24. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #557150
#25. A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #589500
#26. 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

Hildegard's Quotes #595339
#27. Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #624447
#28. Like billowing clouds,
Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

Hildegard Von Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #629316
#29. The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #655282
#30. God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #674475
#31. Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change ...

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #682297
#32. The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #746219
#33. 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

Hildegard's Quotes #776541
#34. Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #797155
#35. We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #811117
#36. You are the mountain and the valley.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #853665
#37. Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #889624
#38. Hildegard had long felt that sentimentality was a luxury she could not afford.

Muriel Spark

Hildegard's Quotes #916071
#39. 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 Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #969809
#40. I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1050106
#41. My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #1072658
#42. Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1075573
#43. Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1085705
#44. Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1087080
#45. With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1107962
#46. All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1121971
#47. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1126251
#48. Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #1126572
#49. I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #1154876
#50. But when the sun drops closer to the earth, the cold of the earth runs to it from the water and causes all green things to dry up. And because the sun has dropped closer to the earth, the days are short, and it is winter.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1178758
#51. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1225273
#52. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1262507
#53. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1297478
#54. Hildegard von Bingen conveys spiritual ecstasy, if we're talking of Western music. What bothers me about Western music is that it doesn't have an esoteric dimension in the way the music of the East has, whether it be Byzantine chant, the music of the Sufis, or Hindu music.

John Tavener

Hildegard's Quotes #1314237
#55. Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #1370557
#56. If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #1515355
#57. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1541550
#58. And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1590965
#59. There is the music of Heaven in all things.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1593854
#60. 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 Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1613165
#61. Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1614179
#62. If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1639397
#63. Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1641645
#64. The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1659862
#65. Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1681616
#66. When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious
they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1698218
#67. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1726847
#68. The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one ...

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #1735667
#69. 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.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1758316
#70. The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Hildegard's Quotes #1801460
#71. I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1817016
#72. Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.

Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard's Quotes #1827979
#73. If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard's Quotes #1849698
#74. 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

Hildegard's Quotes #1877640

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