“God our Savior will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4).
Grace does not compel anyone.
Men have the God-given freedom to accept it and to work with it or to reject it.
Those who embrace it are saved and those who withdraw from it are lost.
Guard well, my son, that which you have heard that you may be illumined by it and believe as a true Orthodox Christian.
Elder Cleopa of Romania