Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman
Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town, And on it put a steeple.
Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise,
Abîme tout plutôt; c'est l'esprit de l'Église.
To support those of your rights authorized
by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars.
"What is a church?" Let Truth and reason
They would reply, 'The faithful, pure and meek,
From Christian folds, the one selected race,
Of all professions, and in every place."
Crabbe—The Borough. Letter n. L. 1.
What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells,
'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.
Crabbe—The Borough. Letter II. L. 11.
Whenever 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.
Defoe—True Born Englishman. Pt. I. L. 1.
Note in first Edition says it is an English
proverb. Omitted in later editions.
| seealso = (See also Bancroft)
| topic = Church
| page = 118
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 8
| text = <poem>God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.
Drummond—Posthumous Poems. A Proverb.
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| topic = Church
| page = 118
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 9
| text = Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben Frauen,
Kann ungerechtes Gut verdauen.
The church alone beyond all question
Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
Goethe—Faust. I. 9. 35.
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| topic = Church
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 10
| text = It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
| author = Matthew Henry
| work = Commentaries. Jeremiah.
| place = VII.
| topic = Church
| page = 118
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 11
| text = No sooner is a temple built to God but the devil builds a chapel hard by.
| author = Herbert
| work = Jacula Prudentum.
| seealso = (See also Bancroft)
| topic = Church
| page = 118
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 12
| text = <poem>When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
God is more there than thou: for thou art there
Only by his permission. Then beware,
And make thyself all reverence and fear.
Well has the name of Pontifex been given
Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder
And architect of the inisible bridge
That leads from earth to heaven.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.
A beggarly people,
A church and no steeple.
It was founded upon a rock.
Matthew. VII. 25.
As like a church and an ale-house, God and
the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether.
Nashe—Works. III. Have with you to Saffron ,
Walden. Same idea in his Christ's Teares.
Works. IV. 57. Dekker—Rauens Alr
manacke. Works. IV. 221.
| seealso = (See also Bancroft)
| topic = Church
| page = 118
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 18
| text = There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel.
Cardinal Paleotti, according to K. H.
Digby—Compitum. Vol. II. P. 297.
| seealso = (See also Bancroft)
| topic = Church
| page = 118
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 19
| text = Non est de pastu ovium qusestio, sed de lana.
It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
Pope Pros II.
| seealso = (See also Suetonius)
| topic = Church
| page = 118
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 20
| text = <poem>No silver saints, by dying misers giVn,
Here brib'd the rage of iU-requited heaVn;
But such plain roofs as Piety could raise,
And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
| author = Pope
| work = Eloisa to Abelard. L. 137.
| topic = Church
| page = 118
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 21
| text = <poem>Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame,
Will never mark the marble with his Name.
