#anastasios mamalas

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“Sin is like an iceberg. Just as the ice at the North Pole needs the warm rays of the sun to melt it, so also is sin. It needs prayer, which is like the rays of the sun. Sin can be forgiven. With much prayer, sin can melt away.”

- Anastasios Malamas, Ascetics in the World: Volume II, p. 265