HILDEGARD OF BINGEN Quotes

“Who is this woman who preached of the “web of life” that all creation shares, but who warned that “the earth must not be injured, the earth must not be destroyed”—and that if humans misuse creation, “God will permit creation to punish humanity”?”
― Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times

“As Rabbi Heschel teaches, humanity will be saved not by more information, but by more appreciation.”
― Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times

“Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God’s sword would smite him? Who is this woman”
― Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times

“As Sister Joan Chittister, a direct descendant of Hildegard in the Benedictine tradition, says, the issue today is not “radical feminism,” which the Vatican accuses Catholic sisters in America of, but “radical patriarchy.”
― Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times

“In the first place, Hildegard calls for a marriage of science and spirituality. For religion and the secular sciences to be sundered as they currently are is a blunder of immense proportions on the part of our species—and with potentially dire consequences.”
― Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times