Witch Wood

And at times I'm tempted to think that our way and the Kirk's way is not God's way, for we're apt to treat the natural man as altogether corrupt, and put him under over-strict pains and penalties, whereas there's matter in him that might be shaped to the purposes of grace. If there's original sin, there's likewise original innocemce.

If the Kirk confines human nature too strictly, it will break out in secret ways, for men and women are born into a terrestrial world, though they have hopes of Heaven.

The profession of religion was not the same thing as godliness, and he was coming to doubt whether the insistence upon minute conformities of outward conduct and the hair-splitting doctrines were not devices of Satan to entangle souls.

[T]he Kirk of Scotland as at present guidit […] is a kind o' Papery wi' fifty Papes instead o' ane.

[T]here was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.

Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

[A] falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.

I am a minister of Christ first and of the Kirk second. If the Kirk forgets its Master's teaching, we part company.