Saint Peter Quotes

“Martin Sheen turned to me and said, 'Do you know what Saint Peter says to everyone who tries to get into heaven?' When I looked blankly, the man who was once president said, 'Peter says, 'Don't you have any scars?' And when most would respond proudly, 'Well no, no I don't,' Peter says, 'Why not? Was there nothing worth fighting for?”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“The early Christians built a small shrine over his tomb. As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this collosal basilica. The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St Peter. The rock.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“For Mark there waits a brighter crown!
When Peter comes his card to read—
He’ll take the sign “No Smoking” down,
Then Heaven will be Heaven indeed.”
― Oliver Herford