Saint Peter Quotes

• The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

  Frank Gehry

  Saint, Pieces, Architecture

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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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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• Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Heaven, Faithful, Earth

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Italian, Elderly, Saint

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.
  [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]

  George Herbert

  Giving, Saint, Economy

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• Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.

  George Herbert

  Saint, Blame, Peter

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

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