“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel…Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.”
— Martin Luther, book Table Talk
67. Compare "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part III, section 4, member 1, subsection 1
Table Talk (1569)
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seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546Related quotes
“Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 4, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
Pt. I, l. 1. Compare: "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii, section 4, Memb. 1, Subsect. 1. <br class="br"> The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) British writer
Posthumous Poems, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part iii, Section 4, Member 1, Subsection 1 .
“They say the devil is only antichrist, but why not also anti-God?”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“Only by repudiating both devils and small gods will they ever know the Real One.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
The small god in Ch. 44 : the visitor
The Visitor (2002)
Context: Occasionally, I will do a conspicuous miracle to save one dying child while a thousand children starve elsewhere. This will convince sensible people I am perverse, and they will curse my name. Be sure to recruit those who do, they'll be invaluable. Only by repudiating both devils and small gods will they ever know the Real One.
“Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 168
