Sin And Healing

Χριστὸς ὁ Θεὸς καὶ Δεσπότης των ὅλων, σαφῶς καὶ διαῥῥήδην ἐν τοῖς Εὐαγγελίοις ἀνακαλεῖ τοὺς ἀπὸ παντοίας κακίας βεβαρημένους· Δεῦτε πρός με, κραυγάζων, κὰγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς. Τοῦτο γὰρ αὐτῷ καὶ τῆς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καθόδου τὸ αἴτιον γεγενῆσθαι διεβεβαιώσατο· Οὐ γὰρ ἦλθον δικαίους καλέσαι, φησὶν, ἀλλὰ ἁμαρτωλοὺς πρὸς τὸ μετανοῆσαι. Καὶ, Οἱ ἰσχύοντες οὐ χρῄζουσιν ἰατροῦ, ἀλλ' οἱ κακῶς ἔχοντες. Εἰ τοίνυν ταῦθ' οὕτως ἔχει, μηδαμῶς ἀπογίνωσκε, μᾶλλον δὲ ῥώννυτο ταῖς χρηστοτέριας ἐλπίσιν. Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΤϚ, Καλοχυρῳ

The Divine Christ, and Lord of all, clearly and openly in the Gospels calls all those who are burdened by every sort of evil, saying, 'Come to me, crying out, and I shall restore you.' 1 For He announces that this is the reason why He descended from heaven. 'For I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to penitence.' And 'He who is well does not need a physician, but he who is sick.' 2 If then these things are so, we should certainly not despair, but rather by hope of better be strengthened. Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 1, Letter 306 To Kalochyros 1 Mt 11.28 2 Mt 9. 13, 12