Quotes from William Laughton Lorimer

There is a sense of culture-shock in picking up this volume: we encounter the familiar stories, but in a novel garb.

Whan he hed come doun aff the braeside, an unco thrang o fowk fallowt him' (Matt. 8:1)

There is an immediacy here which is both refreshing and startling.

Jesus asks the Samaritan woman at the well, 'Rax me a drap watter, will ye?' and she replies, 'What! A Jew lik ye seekin a drink o a Samâritan like mysel?' (John 4: 7–9)

I Corinthians 13 ('Gin I speak wi the tungs o men an angels, but hae nae luve i my hairt . . .')

Aa our knawledge is hauflin; aa our prophesíein is hauflin: but whan the perfyte is comed, the onperfyte will be by wi. In my bairn days, I hed the speech o a bairn, the thochts o a bairn, the mind o a bairn, but nou at I am grown manmuckle, I am through wi aathing bairnlie… In smaa: there is three things bides for ey: faith, howp, luve. But the grytest o the three is luve.