Gildas the Wise Quotes

“You are drunk with the practicing of constant sins, and shaken by the waves of accumulated crimes that incessantly rush upon you; seek then, as though you had suffered shipwreck, with all the striving of your mind, for the single plank of penitence that can carry you to the land of the living, so that the fury of the Lord may be turned away from you. For in His mercy He said: 'I do not desire the death of a sinner, but that he may turn and live.”
― St. Gildas, Gildas the Wise: THE RUIN OF BRITAIN, FRAGMENTS FROM LOST LETTERS, THE PENITENTIAL, TOGETHER WITH THE LORICA OF GILDAS