Narrow Path Quotes

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

Henry David Thoreau

Love, Respect, Appreciate

Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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

Neal A. Maxwell

Cutting, Path, Corners

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An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Greatness, Diversity

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path.

Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Path, Traffic, Congestion

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wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

Eric Jerome Dickey

Temptation, Way, Grace Christian

Eric Jerome Dickey (2000). “Liar's Game”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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Just put one foot in front of the other.

Austin Peck

Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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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

Cities, Looks, Path

Ellen G. White (2013). “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. II. - Prophets and Kings”, p.600, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Rose Philippine Duchesne

Jesus, Path

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The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path.... When you begin to hunger & thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

Ezra Taft Benson

Temptation, Deception, Path

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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

Faith, Jesus, Cheer

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Jim Butcher

Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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One sure way we can determine whether we are on the strait and narrow path is that we will possess the Spirit of the Lord in our lives. Having the Holy Ghost brings forth certain fruits. . . . The most important thing in our lives is the Spirit. I have always felt that. We must remain open and sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost in all aspects of our lives.

Ezra Taft Benson

Important, Way, Path

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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

Practice, Simplicity, Path

Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.191, Shambhala Publications

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Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship. The natural man doesn't automatically think of doing good. It isn't natural. How many people worry about the car behind them or the person below them? The natural man just doesn't do it. For us, however, these promptings enlarge our awareness of other people's needs and then prod us to act accordingly.

Neal A. Maxwell

Men, Thinking, People

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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

Moving, Play, Opponents

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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

True Friend, Want, Path

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Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?

Swami Vivekananda

Light, Soul, Littles

Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.93, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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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

Lakes, Sky, Black

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My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

Edvard Munch

Fall, Jumping, Trying

Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

Peter F. Hamilton

Passion, Balance, Path

"The Reality Dysfunction". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, October 8, 2008.

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We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off.

Mark Lawrence

Block, Men, Giving

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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

Path, Christianity, Christian Life

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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

Men, Heaven, Path

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But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mirror-lined narrow paths not only took different turns, but used different levels (as a mule-drawn cart passes under the arch of a viaduct along which a motor skims by), he found himself tackling, in still vague and idle fashion, the science that was to obsess his mature years - problems of space and time, space versus time, time-twisted space, space as time, time as space - and space breaking away from time, in the final tragic triumph of human cogitation: I am because I die.

Vladimir Nabokov

Fashion, Past, Years

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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

Temptation, Darkness, Would Be

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