Gates Of Heaven Quotes - Page 2

• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Angel

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Heaven, Soul

  "Paperweight". Book by Stephen Fry, 1992.

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• The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Fashion, Pain

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• It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.

  Hafez

  Powerful, Destiny, Heaven

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• He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Destiny, Heaven, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Dream, Heaven

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• The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Heaven, Might, Decline

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• Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Heaven, Bartender, Novel

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

  Christian Scriver

  Dream, Men, Self

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.128

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• I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.

  Harold Pinter

  Cities, People, Heaven

  Harold Pinter (1999). “The Dwarfs: And Nine Revue Sketches”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Heaven, Saving

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• It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Self, Heaven

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

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• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Men, Jumping

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• The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, “Of course, just show us your scars.” The man says, “I have no scars”. St. Peter says, “What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for”?

  Martin Sheen

  Fighting, Men, Heaven

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• Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

  Heaven, Tickets, Agnostic

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• Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven.

  SebastiAn

  Heaven, Impossible, Rejected

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• Death when to death a death by death hath given
  Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven.
  [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).]

  Thomas Heywood

  Death, Long, Heaven

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• Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

  David Brooks

  School, Self, Expression

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.239

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