The Ways

Intrate per angustam portam, usque, Et pauci sunt qui inveniunt eam. Lata via est quae tendit ad saeculi voluptates, cujus inquisitione aut inventione opus non est, quia sponte se offerunt. Angustam vero viam omnes inveniunt, nec qui inveniunt statim ingrediuntur per eam, siquidem multi de medio itinere veritatis, saeculi voluptatibus capti, revertuntur. Sanctus Beda, In Matthaei Evangelium Expositio, Lib I, Caput VII Source: Migne PL 92.37c

'Enter through the narrow gate ...' up to '...there are few who find it.' 1 The way is wide that directs to worldly pleasures, in the acquisition and discovery of which there is no toil, but immediately they are set before one. Yet not all who find the narrow way immediately walk on it, for many, seized by worldly pleasures, turn aside from travelling on the way of truth. Saint Bede, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Book 1, Chapter 7 1 Mt 7.13-14