chapel quotes

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.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Garden of Love'.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter hast the largest congregation.

-Defoe, Daniel
The True-Born Englishman, pt.1, l.1^4.

I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.

-Michelangelo full name Michelangelo Buonarroti
  Letter written to his father after18 months of painting the vault of the Sistine Chapel, quoted in Robert  J Clements (ed) Michelangelo:  A Self-Portrait (1968).

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