Witch Wood Quotes

“It portends," said Mr. Proudfoot, whom food did not mellow, "that our pure and reformed Kirk of Scotland is linked more than ever with sectaries and antinomians and those, like the bloody and deceitful Cromwell, that would defile the milk of the Word with the sour whey of their human inventions. What avails a triumphant Kirk if its doctrine be sullied?”
― John Buchan, Witch Wood

“I seek above all things to bring men and women to God's mercy-seat.”
― John Buchan, Witch Wood

“Doubtless. But only if the first be truly won—if the Kirk attend to the work of salvation and does not expend her toil in barren fields. Her sovereign must be King Jesus. Take heed that instead it be not King Covenant.”
― John Buchan, Witch Wood

“My poalitics is just an auld wife's poalitics that wants to be left in peace by her fireside…”
― John Buchan, Witch Wood