
“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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.
The True-Born Englishman http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm (1701)
“No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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.”
Section 4, member 1, subsection 1.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
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.”
Sahih Muslim, Nr. 828; muslim-canada.org http://muslim-canada.org/sayingsabubakr.html
Sunni Hadith
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
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"
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)