Hildegard of Bingen Quotes on God
Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine abbess, polymath, and one of the most important religious figures of the twelfth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Hildegard of Bingen on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hildegard of Bingen:
“There is the music of Heaven in all things.”
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Attributed to Hildegard of Bingen:
“I am the love that fills all of nature, every day, all year long.”
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Attributed to Hildegard of Bingen:
“All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance.”
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“O venerable father Bernard, I lay my claim before you, for, highly honored by God, you bring fear to the immoral foolishness of this world and, in your intense zeal and burning love for the Son of God, gather men [cf. Luke 5.10] into Christ's army to fight under the banner of the cross against pagan savagery. I beseech you in the name of the Living God to give heed to my queries.”
Letter to Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, 1146-47 -
“Now, O son of God, set in the valley of true humility, walk in peace without pride of spirit, which, like a precipitous mountain, offers a difficult, or near-impossible, ascent or descent to those who attempt to scale it, and on its summit no building can be built. For a person who tries to climb higher than he can achieve possesses the name of sanctity without substance, because, in name alone without a structure of good works, he glories in a kind of vain joy of the mind.”
Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176 -
“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!”
O gloriosissimi -
“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.”
O eterne deus