A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.