Someone who says that he has repented then goes back to sinning, then repents and goes back again… has not yet repented. This is not repentance but attempts at repentance. A person who is truly sorry for his sin is a person whose life has changed, who has left his sin with no going back, like Saint Augustine and St. Moses the Black.

One of the Saints said: “I don’t recall that the devils have ever made me fall into the same sin twice”.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life