Quiz about basic knowledge of Christianity

In a broad sense, repentance refers to a fundamental change in one's life from arbitrary sinful, self-loving, and self-sufficient to living according to God's commandments, in love and seeking God.

One's thoughts often suggest to another: "You are still young, you will repent in your old age". And if he lives to old age, the thought will say, "Now you are old and in need of rest. It is necessary to work daily for the Lord with fear and trembling, for who told us we would live to be old? And even if we do live to old age, will we have a good thought if we are already negligent about our salvation from that time on?

St. Ephraim the Syrian

While the wound is still new and hot, it is easily healed, but old, neglected and neglected wounds are not easily healed and require much labor, cutting, covering and cauterizing to heal. Many wounds from time become unhealable, but with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). The later the repentance, the more grievous it is.

Venerable John Climacus

Many people, being entrenched in evil, flatter themselves with the hope that they can repent at death; but besides the fact that this hope is uncertain, the holy fathers believe that a man who has lived unrepentantly all his life can hardly have true repentance at death. For then it is no longer he who does bad deeds, but bad deeds forsake him.

Platon (Levshin), Metropolitan of Moscownd hot, it is easily healed, but old, neglected and neglected wounds are not easily healed and require much labor, cutting, covering and cauterizing to heal. Many wounds from time become unhealable, but with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). The later the repentance, the more grievous it is.

Venerable John Climacus.