Nectarius of Aegina Quotes

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

Let us not do anything that the inner man does not will;

The intellectual nature is self-motivating and thus free.

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.

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

The being who is unfree and dependent, subjected to instinctual drives, is not an intelligent being because the spirit is free and independent by nature and in no way subordinate.

His true followers are not those who accept the principles of Christianity in word alone and yet reject them in deeds, but rather those who embrace them in both word and deed, and bring their life and manners and morals to order according to the divine commandments of Christianity.

Sin debases the divine beauty of the image of both the soul and of the body and makes it ugly and useless.

Regret is a disposition for returning to God,

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

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.

We ought to be unyielding towards sin because once it cheats our consent, it becomes our true lord.

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.

Let us not subject our free will to the will of sin;

People have to pay retribution for the deeds of recklessness committed by their kings.