Pearly gates

When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls / And pearly gates behold?

This immense wealth; this gilded splendor; this profusion of luxury; this exemption from toil; this life of ease; this sea of plenty; aye, what of it all? Are the pearly gates of happiness and sweet content flung open to such suitors?

The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases. Heaven to them was a serious business of pearly gates, harps, halos, and aërial flights on ambient pale clouds.

I'd toss for pennies on the front steps of the New Jerusalem or set up a faro layout just outside the Pearly Gates.

By the time they got a doctor down / I was already dead / And I'll never understand why the man / Standing in the Pearly Gates said…

When I'm at the pearly gates / This'll be on my videotape, my videotape