If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.


Beth's views on the Celestial City, in Ch. 13 : Castles In The Air - Little Women (1868)

Louisa May Alcott Quotes

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any...

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any...

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any...

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any...