John Buchan

There comes a time to everyone when the world narrows for him to a strait alley, with Death at the end of it, and all his thoughts are fixed on that waiting enemy of mankind.

[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.