With all the novelty of my emancipation on me, I went to church with Joe, and thought perhaps the clergyman wouldn’t have read that about the rich man and the kingdom of Heaven, if he had known all.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 19. When he goes to church with Joe, Pip feels a sense of guilt over the news about his “great expectations.” This happens as he listens to the clergyman reading the passage from the Bible on how difficult it is for the wealthy to get to get into heaven: Matthew 19:23 “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven.”