Matthew 7:13-14

Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad and easy to travel is the path that leads the way to destruction and eternal loss, and there are many who enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to (everlasting) life, and there are few who find it.  

Sometimes the routes that are harder to take hold the greatest reward.  We choose to take the more challenging way with more significant gain through Jesus Christ or the easier route of the flesh and sin.  The goal is eternal life and not hell and damnation.  It may be a complex concept to bear but an internal reality that we all must face someday.