Quotes by Edward Irving

• I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
• The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.
• I have thoroughly gone through the subject of the Incarnation; and if it served you, could at any time give you the history from the beginning of the controversies on this subject, and of its present form.
• The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.