Nectarius of Aegina Quotes

The manic lover does not love his beloved as much as God loves the repentant soul.

Only through self-denial can we be saved.

Having lived in sin, perhaps we want to die in it.

Sin removes all compunction and makes sinners shameless for the darkening of their souls.

Let us make our hearts harder than steel before the most flattering words.

In the Kingdom of God the old man who is corrupted by sin cannot enter. For this reason, he must strip himself of the old man along with the passions and desires and be clothed in “the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.”

The intellectual nature is self-motivating and thus free.

Semiramis managed to convince her husband, King Ninos of Assyria, to give up his rule and give her the sceptre of the kingdom for one day. But what was the first act of the new queen? It was to have King Ninos her husband executed and to secure her authority for life. ... Sin, being Semiramis, practices every bit of flattery to attain the consent of man, and immediately upon attaining its desire, it gains dominion, it captures and kills the rational faculty, it sets its throne upon the heart and directs all of life.

Moral freedom makes man a moral being and an image of God.

They have adorned everything , overlooking their mind and their attitude like it is a cheap inn of no value,

The grace of God, despite being infinite, does not save on its own, because He does not wish to violate the free agency of man.

The heart seeks to justify divine justice out of a deep-seated drive because deep inside he desires and seeks the dominance of the divine law and strives to be enabled by its eternality. ... This deep-seated desire originates from the identification of the faculty of will within man with the law of God.

Woe unto those who request money rather than devotion, contrition, and the satisfaction of the divine through true and virtuous life for the forgiveness of sins.

It is necessary for us to want to be saved so that we may be saved through Grace.

It is necessary for us to hasten to repentance before sin becomes a habit within us, because then it is impossible for us to be saved.