Repentance

Categories: spiritual-writings

Date: 21 August 2008 04:12:04

The same Abba also replied to a soldier's question concerning God's acceptance of repentance, "Tell me my dear friend, if your cloak is torn, do you then throw it away?" to which the soldier replied "No, I mend it and use it again." The old man said to him, "If you are so careful about your cloak, will not God be equally careful about his creature?"


From the Facebook group The Desert Fathers. My thanks to the group's owner, Mena Goubran, for his sharing these.