Quotes from Walter Hilton

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.