Narrow Black

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“Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:14.

From the Sermon on the Mount.

“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)