A cab driver dies and reaches the Pearly Gates. St. Peter looks him up in the Book of Life and says, "OK, you're in," and tells the cabbie to pick up a gold staff and an embroidered silk robe at the check-in counter and proceed into Heaven.
Next in line is a minister. St. Peter looks him up in the Book of Life, furrows his brow and says, "OK, we'll let you in, but take a burlap robe and a wooden staff at the check-in counter."
The minister is somewhat taken aback and protests, "But I am a man of the cloth. You gave that cab driver a gold staff and an embroidered silk robe. Surely I rate higher than a cabbie!"
St. Peter responds matter-of-factly, "Reverend, this is Heaven and up here, we are interested in results. When you preached, the people slept. When the cabbie drove his taxi, the people prayed."