“Fainthearted people who are depressed about their falls into sin concerned him too. “But there’s repentance. Are your sins greater than God’s mercy?”

“I’m not interested in how sinful someone is,” he would add. “What I’m concerned about is whether he knows himself. God will judge each person according to the work they’ve done on the old man. When the soul cuts away its faults [whatever they are] bracket it will be beautiful to Christ.””
Elder Paisios
~Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos