Hope And Salvation

Ἀνάξιος ὤν, πίστευσον σωθῆναι· ἀναίσθητος ὤν, μὴ προσδοκήσῃς σωθῆναι. Ἀναξίους εὐγνωμονοῦντας, καὶ ἐπὶ πάσῃ θλίψει εὐχαριστοῦντας ἐλεεῖ, καὶ σώζει ὁ φιλάνθρωπος Θεὸς, κἂν μέχρι βαθείας τῶν καλῶν φθάσωσιν ἀπογνώσεως· τοὺς δ' ἀναισθήτους οὐκ ἐλεεῖ. Τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ ἀναίσθητος, εἰ μὴ ὁ μὴ θέλων ὁμολογῆσαι εὐγνωμόνως μυρία εὐεργετεῖσθαι, καὶ ὠφελεῖσθαι τὸν κόσμον διὰ τῆς τοῦ Δεσπότου Χριστοῦ ὁμολογίας; Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΚΒ´ Μαρκιανῳ Source: Migne PG 79.89c

Being unworthy, have faith in salvation; being senseless do not hope for it. Those unworthy, if they have right minds and give thanks in every difficulty, the man loving God shall have mercy on and save, even one who declares himself utterly despairing of better things. However, He has no mercy on the senseless. And who is senseless if not the one who is thankless and unmindful of innumerable blessings, he who does not admit that he has received good things here by the concession of the Lord Christ? Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 1, Letter 22 to Marcianus