| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. |
| Alexander Pope | Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his Name. |
| Alexander Pope | To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. |
| Bible | And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. |
| Daniel Defoe | Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. |
| Gabriel Paleotti | There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel. |
| Gabriel Paleotti | It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool. |
| George Crabbe | "What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place." |
| George Crabbe | "What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. |
| George Herbert | No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by. |
| George Herbert | When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. God is more there than thou: for thou art there Only by his permission. Then beware, That leads from earth to heaven. |
| Henry Bennett | Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Well has the name of Pontifex been given Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder And architect of the invisible bridge That leads from earth to heaven. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion. |
| Matthew Henry | It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. |
| Nicolas Boileau Despreaux | To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. |
| Richard Bancroft | Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same church-yarde will have his chappell. |
| Robert Burton | Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. |
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