It's not easy to chop down 40 feet of thorny vines.

Show me the steep and thorny way. . . .

But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.

Chop off that head which does not bow to the Lord.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

We're looking to get back on our feet, but we're not going to get that back.