Quotes about Gateway

The myth of purgatory is an allegory, a projection, from the present on to the future. This is why purgatory appeals to the imagination. It is our story. It is where we are now. If we are Christians, if we believe in the risen Jesus as Lord, if we are baptized members of his body, then we are passing right now through the sufferings which form the gateway to life.

Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.

So He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.

And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.

it was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.

Then he led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway facing south. He measured its side pillars and portico, and they had the same measurements as the others.

And he brought me to the inner court on the east side, and he measured the gateway; it had the same measurements as the others.

So there were four tables inside the gateway and four outside—eight tables in all—on which the sacrifices were to be slaughtered.

When Peter had gone out to the gateway, another servant girl saw him and said to the people there, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.”

Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow in worship before the LORD at the entrance to that gateway.