Nectarios of Aegina

“God ... does not reject anyone who turns to Him,”

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

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

“When we sin, we sin before God and become enemies of the divine law.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Sinners and those who do not confess due to shame deliver their soul unto death. They suffer in a similar fashion to those who are ill, who do not run to the doctors because of shame.”

“Repentance is the moral rebirth of man and the starting point of a new virtuous life.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“It is right for he who forsakes God to be forsaken by him; it is right for he who rejects the beckoning Grace to be rejected; it is right for God to turn his face away from him who rebels and does not approach Him.”

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

“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.”