St Peter Quotes:

Our Lord Himself, I saw alone in him, both in his and my part of this Venerable Sacrament. For, Oh, Amabilia! How awful those words of unloosing, after thirty years of bondage! I felt as if my chains fell, as those of Saint Peter at the touch of the divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!

- Elizabeth Ann Seton

source: "Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer: Meditations, Reflections, Prayers, and Poems Taken from Her Writings".

topic: Soul, Saint, Messengers, St Peter

From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.155

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Rome, St Peter, Panorama

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

- Martin Luther

source: Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press

topic: Christian, Money, Giving, Hawkers, St Peter

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

- Mother Teresa

topic: Heaven, Earth, Said, St Peter, Gates Of Heaven

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

- Jonathan Pryce

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Religious, Rome, Meals, St Peter, Good Meals

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

topic: Fighting, Men, Heaven, St Peter, Worth Fighting For

It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

- John Henry Newman

topic: Faith, Inspiration, Heart, St Peter

Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Peter, Being True, United, St Peter

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

topic: Art, Children, Book, St Peter

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.142, Courier Corporation

topic: Dream, Trying, Want, St Peter

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

topic: Country, Sight, Rome, St Peter

When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

- David Jeremiah

source: Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.92, Multnomah

topic: Drama, Drinking, Wine, St Peter, Eating Bread

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.

- George Weigel

source: Source: eppc.org

topic: Powerful, Past, Squares, Inclusiveness, St Peter

When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

- Hal Turner

topic: Easter, Dad, Coffee, St Peter, Tea Coffee

Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair [of St. Peter]; they are by no means ignorant of the fact that religion itself can never totter and fall while this Chair remains intact, the Chair which rests on the rock which the proud gates of hell cannot overthrow and in which there is the whole and perfect solidity of the Christian religion.

- Pope Pius IX

topic: Christian, Powerful, War, St Peter, Catholic Religion

It is not doubted, and you know it, that Ireland and all those islands which have received the faith, belong to the Church of Rome; if you wish to enter that Island, to drive vice out of it, to cause law to be obeyed and St Peter's Pence to be paid by every house, it will please us to assign it to you.

- Pope Adrian IV

topic: Rome, Law, Islands, St Peter

"Laws and conditions that tend to debase human personality - a God-given force - be they brought about by the State or other individuals, must be relentlessly opposed in the spirit of defiance shown by St. Peter when he said to the rulers of his day: "Shall we obey God or man?"

- Albert Lutuli

source: "The Road to Freedom is via the Cross". Book by Albert Lutuli, 1952.

topic: Men, Law, Personality, St Peter, Human Personality

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.

- Herman Melville

topic: Strong, Wall, Men, Spaciousness, St Peter

Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

- John Fowles

topic: Angel, Clouds, Glasses, St Peter

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

- Bob Dornan

topic: Defense, Vote, Judgment, Judgment Day, St Peter

Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Book, Writing, House, St Peter

You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Jobs, Giving, Hell, St Peter

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.

- John Strachan

topic: Christian, People, Church, St Peter, Pentecost

It was heaven. Forget angels, forget St. Peter and glittering harpsichords. Heaven was a dance in the arms of one's true love.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Angel, Heaven, Arms, St Peter

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

- Red Skelton

topic: Life And Death, Mind, Dying, St Peter

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

- Merle Travis

topic: Soul, Debt, Another Day, St Peter

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Beauty, Angel, Heaven, St Peter

Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica.

- Roger Ebert

source: Roger Ebert (2013). “I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie”, p.145, Andrews McMeel Publishing

topic: Cannes Film Festival, Satanic, Festivals, St Peter, Cannes

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.

- Karl Philipp Moritz

source: Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.53, BoD – Books on Demand

topic: Differences, Style, Church, St Peter

Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.

- Malachi Martin

topic: Years, Rome, Darkness, St Peter, Surrogates

If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Uncles, Kindness, Men, Squires, St Peter