Top 50 Hildegard of Bingen Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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

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2. “We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

3. “All of creation is a song of praise to God.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

4. “Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

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5. “You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

6. “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

7. “There is the music of Heaven in all things.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

8. “The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

9. “The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!”

— Hildegard of Bingen

10. “Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

11. “Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

21. “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

22. “Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

23. “The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

24. “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

25. “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

26. “Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

30. “All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

31. “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

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

33. “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

34. “A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

35. “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

36. “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

37. “The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

38. “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

39. “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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

43. “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

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

45. “I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

46. “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

47. “The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

48. “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

49. “If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.”

— Hildegard of Bingen

50. “All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.”

— Hildegard of Bingen