Gates of heaven Quote by Amor Towles Download Open image ““the Count threaded the needle faster than saints enter the gates of heaven.”” — Amor Towles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gates of heaven
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“If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.—” — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine, on the Feast of Trumpets, here you are, practicing and shouting the praises of God, rehearsing His coming, and some year,… — Mark Biltz Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing to do often comes with no earthly reward; but it supernaturally affects eternity, so it turns into huge deposit in heaven.” — Alisa Hope Wagner Copy Share Image
“.. or a saint who had spent all his years preparing for his grand entry into heaven, only to discover on his deathbed that… — Olga Grushin Copy Share Image
“And let it ever be remembered, that our works do not precede us to the bar of God, so as to open the door… — Augustus M. Toplady Copy Share Image
“Here is the last truth of Saints: We will always choose the path which brings us the most power. I spread my arms, and… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“There is nothing which can so assist you to walk towards heaven with good speed, as wearing the image of Jesus on your heart… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The saints should never be dismayed, Nor sink in hopeless fear; For when they least expect His aid, The Savior will appear. Wait” — Bruce Demarest Copy Share Image
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“Rather than sitting in orderly rows in a schoolhouse, wouldn't one be better served by working her way towards an actual horizon, so that… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Mostly, he said, I've been thinking about what I'm not going to do. When I think of the last few years, I've been hounded… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“In the doleful court behind my building a patchwork of windows was all that separated me from a hundred muted lives being led without… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“That is how time passes when one is left waiting unaccountably. The hours become interminable. The minutes relentless. And the seconds? Why, not only… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Mishka would pine for Katerina the rest of his life! Never again would he walk Nevsky Prospekt, however they chose to rename it, without… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Every year, I would spend weeks at a time in the hotels of distant cities. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“As we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. We… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“For it is the role of the parent to express his concerns and then take three steps back. Not one, mind you, not two,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
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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… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
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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… — Thomas Heywood Copy Share Image
Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Nothing in our Condition can affect/ change our Position. This works in two ways: 1) No matter how good an unbeliever is (Condition), it… — David R. Anderson Copy Share Image
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven. — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image