No sooner is a temple built to God, but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.
George Herbert
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Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel.
Robert Burton
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel...Thus is the Devil ever God's ape.
Martin Luther
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.Daniel Defoe
“I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.
And the gates of this chapel were shut,
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door,
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore,
And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.”Orson Scott Card
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Herbert, Zbigniew
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