Pearly Gates Quotes

• If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

  James Lipton

  Heaven, Gates, Ifs

  "Inside the Actors Studio". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Heaven, Kind, Odd

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• The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Kings, Journey, Funeral

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• The truth is that we are saved by grace only after all we ourselves can do. (See 2 Ne. 25:23.) There will be no government dole which can get us through the pearly gates. Nor will anybody go into the celestial kingdom who wants to go there on the works of someone else. Every man must go through on his own merits. We might just as well learn this here and now.

  Marion G. Romney

  Men, Grace, Want

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• When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Netflix, Watches

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• Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help but picture the lackluster VIP lounge in Heaven, a kind of nonalcoholic ice-cream social starring Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mahatma Gandhi. Hardly anyone's idea of a "with-it" social register.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Ice Cream, Ideas

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• Whatever happens when we die, it would be really weird if it was what we had expected. Even if you were a lifelong Christian believer, it would be kind of weird if there actually were pearly gates.

  George Saunders

  Christian, Would Be, Be Kind

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• If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? Oh, you know something? I'm so far away from believing that it exists, and the only thing I know are jokes about it.

  Donald Sutherland

  Believe, Heaven, Far Away

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• This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state says it's legal, it's not like God's going to let them into Heaven. So you can still sleep sound every night knowing that goal line defense is up at the pearly gates.

  Daniel Tosh

  Sleep, Gay, Night

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• I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

  Robin Williams

  Waiting, Hey, Osama Bin Laden

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• It's a thin line between paper and hate,
  Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
  Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
  Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

  Nas

  Hate, Rap, Snakes

  Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999

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• It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Odds, Heaven

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• I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Confused, Intelligent, Sky

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Tilt”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you ever had were answered. Ronan had a lot of questions. Waking Glendower might be like that. Fewer angels attending, and maybe a heavier Welsh accent. Slightly less judgment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Eye, Angel

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Way, Backwards, Gates

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• I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, Done, Said

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• 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.'

  John Fogerty

  Inspirational, Looks, Records

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• Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Angel, Heaven, Liquor Stores

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.'

  William Shatner

  Book, Names, People

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