“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)
“Wherever 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.”
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)
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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)
“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
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 .
“He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Sahih Muslim, Nr. 828; muslim-canada.org http://muslim-canada.org/sayingsabubakr.html <br class="br">Sunni Hadith
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947) American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
Address The Call to Service (1917); " A world in ferment; interpretations of the war for a new world https://archive.org/stream/worldinfermentinw00butl/worldinfermentinw00butl_djvu.txt"
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)