The trees will teach…
The trees and stones will teach you what you never learn from the masters.
–Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Heaven is already mine…
When I gaze with open eyes at what You, my God, have created here, heaven is already mine.
–Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
Give God their praise…
The blowing wind, the mild, moist air, the exquisite greening of trees and grasses – In their beginning, in their ending, they give God their praise.
–Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
Who gives these gifts…
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. Who gives all these shining, wonderful gifts, if not God?
–Saint Hildegarde of Bingen (1098-1179)
Creation is a song…
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.
–Saint Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179)
Have charity and humility…
Let us have charity and humility, and give alms, for almsgiving cleanses our souls from the filth of sin. At death we lose all that we have in this world, but we take with us charity and the alms-deeds we have done, and for these we shall receive a great reward from God.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
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