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Most people neither hear nor understand God speaking in their hearts: they listen to the urging of passion, which inhabits the soul and with its clamour drowns the still small voice of God.

— Sophrony Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991)

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No sin is unforgivable except the sin that is not repented of.

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