Abba Pambo said, “If you have a heart, you can be saved.”

They said of Abba Pambo that as he was dying, at the very hour of his death, he said to the holy men who were standing near him, “Since I came to this place of the desert and built my cell and dwelt here, I do not remember having eaten bread which was not the fruit of my own hands and I have not said anything for which I was sorry later, even to this present hour; and yet I am going to God as one who has not even made a beginning in His service.

Abba Pambo said: This voice cries out to a man until his last breath, “Repent this day.”

Venerable Pambo of Egypt, commemorated 18 July