Matthew 7:14

For strait is the gate.

What is it Augustine asks, that makes this gate so strait to us. It is not that it is strait, or narrow, in itself, but that we want to crowd through it with the world upon our shoulders. We want to take the swellings of our pride, our self-will, of our darling sins. It is too narrow for these, but will easily allow us to pass in it we renounce all and cleave to Christ, and that way is self-denial and non-conformity to the world.

Few there be that find it.

It has to be sought. The reason that men do not find it is not because it is hard to find, but because they prefer to walk in the broad way. They can walk in it without repentance, surrender to the will of Christ, self-denial, humility and purity of life.