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.  

We have two roads, which are the way of life or death. The wide road rejects God and His salvation and follows a sinful nature, searing the conscious as it goes, closing the gate to a connection with God. The narrow road accepts Jesus and salvation, being washed clean of sins and finding fulfillment for the spirit and soul. It accepts the Word of God as a liberator and not a burden.