Nectarius of Aegina Quotes

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.

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

While the Grace of God beckons and illumines the nous and the heart, the will concurs by laying open the eyes and purifying the heart.

The divine law was written on the heart of man because God formed his heart to be the seat of the love of the good.

The Grace of God forsakes the unrepentant man because he disdained God’s wealth of uprightness, forbearance, and longsuffering.

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

We should regulate those passions rationally and lead them with authority and hold the reins, ... in no way enduring the subjugation of our free agency.

We should employ even the irrational passions with rationality,

The people of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel were punished many times over for the arrogance of their kings.

We should regulate those passions rationally and lead them with authority and hold the reins ... in no way enduring the subjugation of our free agency.

The aesthetic nature is unfree because it is moved by something else and does not move according to its own will.

It is necessary for us to will our salvation so as to seek it.

The Christianity in discussion is a religion which demands not only the knowledge of its theories, but also their application in life.

Those who are burdened by their sins and delight in them and commune in Church desecrate the holiness of the Church and hinder the work of this great commission.

Those who sin out of ignorance must recognise that they are hoarding great wrongs in themselves