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

John Buchan book Witch Wood

Source: Witch Wood (1927), Ch. XIV "The Counterblast"

“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”

John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness

The scene is a society ball in London.
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. V, p. 145.

“I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.”

Space (1912)

“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.”

John Buchan book Salute to Adventurers

Source: Salute to Adventurers (1915), Ch. 24 "I Suffer the Heathen's Rage"

“Every wife is like Mary the Blessed and may bear a saviour of mankind. The road is long, but the ways of Heaven are sure.”

John Buchan book The Path of the King

Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. V "The Maid"