Peter quotes

Ubi Petrus, ibi ergo ecclesia. Where Peter is, there, accordingly, is the Church.

-St Ambrose
Explanatio psalmi 40.

Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew16:18^19.

Jesus said unto him,Verily I say unto thee,That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter said unto him,Though Ishould die with thee yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 26:34^5.

And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how hehad said unto him,Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 22:61.

So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulchre.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 20:4.

   As he drew near, he gazed upon the gate Ne'er to be entered more by him or Sin, With such a glance of supernatural hate, As made Saint Peter wish himself within; He pattered with his keys at a great rate, And sweated through his apostolic skin: Of course his perspiration was but ichor, Or some such other spiritual liquor.

-Rochdale
  The Vision of  Judgement, stanza 25.

There anchoring, Peter chose from man to hide, There hang his head, and view the lazy tide In its hot slimy channel slowly glide; Where the small eels that left the deeper way For the warm shore, within the shallows play; Where gaping mussels, left upon the mud, Slope their slow passage to the fallen flood.

- George Crabbe
  The Borough, letter 22,'Peter Grimes', l.185^91.

There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

- Eleanor Farjeon
  Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

But from the first 'twas Peter's drift To be a kind of moral eunuch, He touched the hem of Nature's shift, Felt faintand never dared uplift The closest, all-concealing tunic.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Peter Bell theThird', pt.4, stanza11.

Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.

- Kenneth Tynan
  Of Noe« l  Coward. Curtains.