Entrance into the Kingdom

There will be many thousands of miserable men and women in the Day of Judgment who will clamor and wail when they see the door of heaven shut in their faces. And at that time they will begin to say: '"Lord, Lord, do open unto us! We cannot understand that Thou would thrust us out! Just outside the door; so near and yet so everlastingly far!" these people will at that time recall that they said very often: Lora, Lord! thinking that such pious exercise would assure them an entrance into the...