“Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 688.
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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)
“To scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.”
Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274) I-II, q. 19, art. 5
“It was through looking at churches that I came to believe in the reason churches were built.”
The Best of Betjeman, John Guest, Penguin Modern Classics, 1985. Written in 1948. (Blisland)
Bk. XXV, ch. 3
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852)
“While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”
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Fireflies (1928)
“No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”
Habere non potest Deum patrem qui ecclesiam non habet matrem.
De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate (AD 251), ch. vi.
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part I (1794)
Source: For Latin Immigrants, Church Is Home, Says Auxiliary of New York https://zenit.org/2003/11/05/for-latin-immigrants-church-is-home-says-auxiliary-of-new-york/ (5 November 2003)