Wherever God erects a house of prayer
the Devil always builds a chapel there;
And 't will be found, upon examination,
the latter has the largest congregation. — Daniel Defoe
My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God. — Charles Spurgeon
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. — Anne Lamott
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell. — Charles Studd
Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. — James Luther Adams
Worshipers never leave church...we carry our sanctuary with us wherever we go. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sound of a church bell at times has more effect than a sermon. — American Proverbs
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters. — Helmut Thielicke
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. — Abigail Van Buren
Short Chapel Quotes
Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill? — Jesse Helms
One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor — Edvard Munch
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral. — Bil Keane
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. — Martin Luther
A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral. — Rosario Ferre
There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel. — Karen Barber
St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle. — Rudy Giuliani
Where God builds a church the devil builds a chapel. — Martin Luther
Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel — Wade Davis
Chapel Image Quotes
Wedding Couple Quotes
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney
Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. — Charles Dickens
You know you're in love when you stop comparing. — Mason Cooley
Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. — Lao Tzu
The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. — Diablo Cody
Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could. — Lindsey Graham
A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet. — George Burns
I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals. — Dan Savage
Chapel Hill Quotes
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years. — William Hooper
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. — Russell Banks
I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill. — Andy Griffith
If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work. — John Podesta
In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the midst of beautiful forests under the skies that give their color and their charm to the life of youth gathered here . . . there is music in the air of the place. — Frank Porter Graham
Sistine Chapel Quotes
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. — Gianni Versace
If God dislikes gays so much, how come he picked Michelangelo, a known homosexual, to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling while assigning Anita Bryant to go on television and push orange juice? — Mike Royko
On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma. — Courtney Love
Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns. — Oliviero Toscani
Fashion is everywhere. Everywhere! Flowers are fashion to me, the sky is fashion, my garden is fashion. My darling, the Sistine Chapel is fashion. — Anna Dello Russo
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. — Antonin Scalia
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel. — Joe Queenan
You may never see a Rembrandt or the Sistine Chapel, but aren't you glad as a human being they are still there? Probably the only thing that separates us from other creatures is that we aren't limited by our basic needs, like food and water; we have this sense of the whole. — George N. Atiyeh
When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. — Noel Fielding
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. — Malcolm Cowley
Chaplain Quotes
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen. — Diane Johnson
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, "There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. — Kurt Vonnegut
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front. — Kurt Vonnegut
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain. — John Ray
It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman.... That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in God we trust on the coins, to Thanksgiving proclamations, to (Congressional) chaplains, to tax exemption for places of worship, which has always existed in America. — Antonin Scalia
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named. — William Congreve
The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country. — Sam Levenson
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended. — Francis Schaeffer
For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. — Gene Roddenberry
No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread. — M. F. K. Fisher
Today there are very few chefs at that high level who are behind their stoves. You don't feel their presence within the room. Where's the romance? Where's the show? Where's the theater? The modern day restaurant - it's like dining in a chapel. It's boring. — Marco Pierre White
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. — M. F. K. Fisher
Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way. — Elvis Presley
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples. — Leigh Hunt
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar. — Jeremy Taylor
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells. — Ralph Ellison
I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling? — Ursula K. Le Guin
Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language; He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book . — R. S. Thomas
There is a brotherhood among the kindly- Closer and defter and more integral- Than any of aisle or coven- For love rang out before the chapel bell — Mervyn Peake
I think its pretty clear that film is the pre-eminent art form of our age. If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it. — Banksy
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. — Dan Brown
There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization. — Ernest Mandel
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. — Harold Brodkey
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery. — George Bernard Shaw
They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved! — Lea DeLaria
If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. — Banksy
In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or suffer excommunication. I believe history will record that the intent to impose such an excommunication was invalid and illicit. — Malachi Martin
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement. — Mary Ruefle
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. — William Shakespeare
Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette. — Barack Obama
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