Nectarius of Aegina Quotes

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

Salvation is commenced by Grace, it is shaped by the will, and then perfected by Grace, which crowns it.

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.

The intellectual nature is self-motivating and thus free.

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

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

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

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

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

We renounce the law of the flesh along with the passions and desires.