“Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.”
Source: Retirement (1782), Line 688.
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William Cowper174
(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800Related quotes
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)
“To scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God.”
Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica
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.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster
The Best of Betjeman, John Guest, Penguin Modern Classics, 1985. Written in 1948. (Blisland)
“While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones.”
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
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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.
Cyprian (200–258) Bishop of Carthage and Christian writer
De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate (AD 251), ch. vi.
Josu Iriondo (1938) Catholic bishop
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)