“…since the days of the flood, when God hung his bow in the clouds to show he would never again send down a deluge as in the days of Noah, this time has been given to us for repentance. Our evil piles up high, going up over our heads, but God forebears.  Death will and must come, but as long as we have breath, we have time to rededicate everything—our entire life—unto Christ our God through repentance.”
(Metropolitan Tikhon of the OCA, ‘Reflections in Christ’)