Quotes About Narrow Path

#1. For the good [person] to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a strait and
narrow path compared to which his [or her] previous rectitude was flowery license.

Parker J. Palmer

#2. The narrow path that 'Uncommon' people will take, that the Lord wants you to go down, that really is the ultimate way to go.

Tony Dungy

#3. We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

Joshua Harris

#4. So I stepped away, reminding myself that when you're a spy, sometimes all you can do is go on. One foot in front of the other, wherever the narrow path might lead.

Ally Carter

#5. Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.

Santosh Kalwar

#6. The first group started along the strait and narrow path, but they did not take hold of the iron rod that would keep them on the path, and they got lost in the mists of darkness

Mary N. Cook

#7. I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.

Surya Das

#8. The rainforest was a huge, living organism, and the narrow path they followed was one of its capillaries. They traveled along it like bacteria or antibodies in the bloodstream.

Richard Tillotson

#9. Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him.

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#10. Not only men, but also women, the weaker sex, in going by the narrow path of Christ have received for themselves the Kingdom of Heaven. For there is neither male nor female, but everyone receives his own reward according to his own labor.

Ephrem The Syrian

#11. The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers.

J.K. Rowling

#12. When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

Neal A. Maxwell

#13. Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

Joe Rogan

#14. To this end, we should help and support one another and strive for peace and union among ourselves. This is the wine that cheers and strengthens travelers along the narrow path of Jesus Christ.

Vincent De Paul

#15. They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.

Bob Massie

#16. If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Miguel De Cervantes

#17. Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#18. The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

Arthur W. Pink

#19. We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Chogyam Trungpa

#20. My duty, I know, is to lead. I cannot offer an array of options. I must offer a long but narrow path to Salvation, and guide the Saints down it. Were that path wide and varied, it would lead nowhere; and I will then have failed both God and man.

David Ebershoff

#21. The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him.

Billy Graham

#22. Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.

Juliette Lewis

#23. We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

David A. Bednar

#24. Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#25. When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

David Bronstein

#26. Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through the gates of the city into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded future of glory that is for the redeemed.

Ellen G. White

#27. ...he chose, not the disquieting road to serenity, but the serenely narrow path to eventual and total derangement.

William Gaddis

#28. I like to play people who are underdogs and misfits. People who are not on a straight and narrow path. That's exciting for me.

Danielle Brooks

#29. Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

Tommy Lasorda

#30. If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#31. Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.

Robert D. Hales

#32. In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

Isak Dinesen

#33. On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

Neal A. Maxwell

#34. John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Henry Ward Beecher

#35. I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

James Ellroy

#36. Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?

Alice James

#37. Every path we take in life, we make the decision to pursue a dream. We travel the path of our dreams on a mental path of a narrow bridge; we must stay focused on our goal and not fear, lest we lose our balance of purpose and fall.

Ellen J. Barrier

#38. In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

Neal A. Maxwell

#39. The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.

James Russell Lowell

#40. When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Miguel De Cervantes

#41. The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.

W. Somerset Maugham

#42. The true path of life leads through the narrow valley of grandeur.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#43. What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Hadewijch

#44. The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.

Robert Southwell

#45. Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

#46. Death finds his way unimpeded, be the path narrow or rocky

Shota Rustaveli

#47. Her narrow silhouette and the nuggets of antique silver on her wrists fascinate and perturb him. But the little girl?He'd show the princess the back of his hand and make her yelp.
The Inspector's shoes press angrily into the gravel path as he walks to his car.

Deborah Levy

#48. Your path is not narrow ... so you can't mess it up.

Esther Hicks

#49. The straight and narrow is not the only path to success.

Sophia Amoruso

#50. But maybe that was what it meant to grow up and have the seemingly infinite possibility of childhood vanish in an instant. You had to press on, no matter how dark and narrow the path ahead seemed.

Martha Brockenbrough

#51. The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

Bill Kristol

#52. Straight and narrow is the path; waste no time.

David R. Hawkins

#53. I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the Bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.

David Plotz

#54. I left smiles on your wordless lips
The night roads- dismal and narrow,
dream's path remains shadowy wide
as our lone hearts felt that arrow

From the Poem 'My Tomorrow

Munia Khan

#55. The path to mediocrity is wide; the path to greatness is narrow, and the path to genius is hidden; few find it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#56. Wide is the path to ignorance; narrow is the path to wisdom, and even narrower is the path to virtue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#57. Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Bryant H. McGill

#58. There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#60. It has ever been thus. The way is hard and narrow, it is true. But it is a path beaten smooth by the countless others who have gone before us. And good news! We do not have to walk it alone. God Himself is with us and has blessed us with friends for the journey.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#61. This trail is never-changing, it won't lead you astray. It won't always be easy to follow and at times it will look too narrow for your paws. Follow it anyway, and you'll overcome every challenge you face." -Faolan

Brittany L. Engels

#62. Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright light. There she is, he thought breathlessly, there she is. With a shout of joy and deliverance he plunged forward to meet the light.

Hella S. Haasse