“No sin is unforgivable except the sin that is not repented of.”
Source: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991), p. 83
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To sin, and thine to pardon who repent.”
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“As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.”
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Source: For The Sake of Heaven (1945), p. 44
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