heavenly gates Quotes

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'

To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with one quiet truth following another in orderly sequence. I do not fret over the mysteries. I do not worry whether the heavenly gates swing or slide. I am only concerned that they open.

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.