The road to sanctity is narrow

Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply…

— Joan D. Chittister

“The Spirit alone could perform the miracle of making man walk on the road of sanctity without a sense of his own worth.”

— G C Berkouwer

Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that…

— Anonymous

“Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who…

— The Lockman Foundation

Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

— Oscar Fernandes

“Narrow all your interests until your mind, heart, and body are focused on Jesus Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

“The image produced by the scope was wonderfully sharp, but also extremely narrow,”

— Peter Meredith

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I…

— Alan Garner

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just…

— Ben Gibbard

I think it's kind of difficult to write a good Christmas song because you have a narrow framework of references that you have to…

— John Oates

Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in…

— Orson F. Whitney

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly…

— Joan Didion

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the…

— Pierre de Fermat

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

— Niels Bohr