“The path of virtue is a path of effort and toil: ‘Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it;’ whereas the gate of vice is wide and the way spacious, but lead to perdition. We ought to do everything we can for the acquisition of virtue and moral wisdom (phronesis), for the prize is beautiful and the hope great.”
(St. Nectarios of Aegina)