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There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

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The Elder Zossima, speaking to a devout widow afraid of death

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