St. Theognostos of Alexandria: The wrath and compassion of God

 We will not be punished or condemned in the age to be because we have sinned, since we were given a mutable and unstable nature. But we will be punished if, after sinning, we do not repent and turn from our evil ways to the Lord; for we have been given the power to repent, as well as the time in which to do so. Only through repentance shall we receive God's mercy, and not its opposite, His passionate anger. Not that God is angry with us: He is angry with evil. Indeed, the divine is beyond passion and vengefulness, though we speak of it as reflecting, like a mirror, our actions and dispositions, giving to each of us whatever we deserve. 

+St. Theognostos of Alexandria¹, from On the Practice of the Virtues, Contemplation and the Priesthood, from The Philokalia, Volume 2.

¹This attribution, by St. Nikodimos, is considered unlikely by scholars.

Fr. John Chryssavgis: God loves us in all our sin

 Man in all his sinfulness is loved by God if he can just keep moving towards God. When one does fall, if one only cries out with confidence, the fall is not into nothingness but into the arms of God stretched open once and for all on the Cross.

+Fr. John Chryssavgis, from Repentance and Confession in the Orthodox Church, Introduction.

St. Simeon the New Theologian: God's love and mercy toward us

 I know, O my Savior, that no other man hath so sinned against Thee as have I, no other man hath wrought such deeds as have I. But I know, also, that neither the magnitude of the transgression, nor the multitude of the sins can transcend the long suffering and unutterable love toward mankind of my God. According to thy mercy and condescension Thou cleansest those who repent with their whole heart; Thou enlightenest them and makest them participants of the light, and sharers of Thy Divinity. And, albeit it is strange for angels and men to comprehend, Thou ofttimes holdest converse with them as with Thy true friends.
+St. Simeon the New Theologian, from a prayer before Holy Communion, in The "Svit" prayer book.