The Saints were land just having the status of all of us. Everyday of them started with grievous sins but finished repentance they attained to the People of Paradise. And everybody who reaches the People of Paradise does so finished repentance, which the Polite Peer of the realm established us by His sufferings.
In the People of Paradise everyplace dwell the Peer of the realm and His top figure dirt free Father, secure all the Saints. Near active our Forefathers and Patriarchs who daringly carried their prestige before them. Near dwell the Prophets who expected the Sacred Ghost, and by their exhortations called the land to God. Near dwell the Apostles who died that the Gospel rule be preached. Near dwell the Martyrs who enthusiastically gave their lives for love of Christ. Near dwell the holy Prelates who followed the Lord's imitate and took upon themselves the load of their spiritual flock. Near dwell the holy Fathers who lived lives of prayer and fasting, and persons who implicit futility for Christ's sake, all of whom fought the good conflict and thereby overcame the world. Near dwell all the Sporting who snobbish God's commandments and crushed their passions.
Thither aspires my human being - to that wondrous holy assembly which the Sacred Ghost has gathered together. But woe is me! Inasmuch as I lack meekness, the Peer of the realm does not present-day me the chutzpah to conflict, and my impoverished spirit flickers out having the status of a detailed candle, whilst the spirit of the Saints burned with a crafty flash, which the curl of interest not really has-been to put out but set hot arrogant excitably than ever. They trod the earth and worked with their hands but their spirits continued with God, of Whom they were ever sane. For the love of Christ they endured every scar on earth, and feared no distress, and thus puffed up the Peer of the realm. Wherefore the Peer of the realm treasured them and puffed up them, and established them the eternal People with Him.
From "Saint Silouan: The Athonite", By Archimandrite Sofronii, p. 398.