„O Eternal God, now may it please youto burn in loveso that we become the limbsfashioned in the love you feltwhen you begot your Sonat the first dawnbefore 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.“

— Hildegard of Bingen

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„If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.“
— Jonathan Edwards