Those who seek God with their faces not even turned towards him, who, instead of beholding the Father in the Son, take the stupidest opinions concerning him and his ways from other men--what should they do but go wandering on dark mountains, spending their strength in avoiding precipices and getting out of bogs, mourning and sighing over their sins instead of leaving them behind and fleeing to the Father, whom to know is eternal life.

Did they but set themselves to find out what Christ knew and meant and commanded, and then to do it, they would soon forget their false teachers.

But alas! they go on bowing before long-faced, big-worded authority--the more fatally when it is embodied in a good man who, himself a victim to faith in men, sees the Son of God only through the theories of others, and not with the sight of his own spiritual eyes.
Donal had not yet seen the lady.

He neither ate, sat, nor held intercourse with the family.

Away from Davie, he spent his time in his tower chamber, or out of doors.