Christian life is “measured against Christ”, founded and modeled on him. This means that the measuring stick is Jesus and his Gospel — not what we think, but what he says to us. And so, we are talking about a narrow door not because only a few are destined to go through it, no, but because to belong to Christ means to follow him, to commit one’s life to love, in service and in giving oneself as he did, who passed through the narrow door of the cross. Entering into the project God proposes for our life requires that we restrict the space of selfishness, reduce the presumption of self-sufficiency, lower the heights of arrogance and pride, and that we overcome laziness, in order to traverse the risk of love, even when it involves the cross.
--Pope Francis
Image source: Russian color engraving, Two Ways of Life (1884), https://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/Challoner_One_Thing_Narrow_Gate.html
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