Walter Hilton Quotes

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

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

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

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

Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.

What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference.

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

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