Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

15th Wednesday after Trinity

The less it thinketh that it loveth or seeth God the nearer it nigheth for to perceive the gift of the blessed love.  For then is love master, and worketh in the soul, and maketh it for to forget itself, and for the see and behold only how love doth.  And then is the soul more suffering than doing, and that is clean love.

Walter Hylton: The Scale of Perfection.

14th Friday after Trinity

This restful travail is full far from fleshly idleness and from blind security.  It is full of ghostly work, but it is called rest, for grace looseth the heavy yoke of fleshly love from the soul and maketh it mighty and free through the gift of the holy ghostly love for to work gladly, softly, and delectably . . . Therefore it is called an holy idleness and a rest most busy; and so it is in stillness from the great crying and the beastly noise of fleshly desires.

Walter Hylton: The Scale of Perfection.

Beware of the mid-day fiend that feigneth light as if it came from Jerusalem but does not so . . . I believe that if true darkness has gone before, the false light never comes.

Walter Hylton: Scale of Perfection.

1st Friday in Lent

When thou attackest the roots of sin, fix thy thought more upon the God whom thou desirest than upon the sin which thou abhorrest.

Walter Hylton: Scale of Perfection.