Church

"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 invisible 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."

"As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether."

"There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel."

"Non est de pastu ovium quæstio, sed de lana."

"No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise."

"I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral."

"Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere."

"The itch of disputation will break out Into a scab of error."

"See the Gospel Church secure, And founded on a Rock! All her promises are sure; Her bulwarks who can shock? Count her every precious shrine; Tell, to after-ages tell, Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail."

"Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies."