God’s will is to save us, and nothing pleases him more than our coming back to him with true repentance…So it was that Christ proclaimed that he had come to call sinners to repentance, not the righteous, and that it was not the healthy who required a doctor, but the sick. He declared that he had come to look for the sheep that was lost, and that it was to the lost sheep of the house of Israel that he had been sent.
–Saint Maximos the Confessor (580-662)
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