A Pearl on the Infallibility of Saints

 

“Hear the Divine revelation that came to me three days before you wrote down your question: Let all of the Fathers who have been pleasing to God, the Saints, the Righteous, and the true servants of God, pray for me; do not suppose that, although they were holy, they were genuinely able to comprehend all the depths of God....”; “They did not ask God about their teachers, whether the things that they said were uttered through the Holy Spirit”; “the doctrines of their teachers were mingled with their own teachings”; “not taking into account that they ought to seek assurance from God through entreaty and supplication as to whether these doctrines were true...”

- St. Barsanuphius the Great, (from “A Most Soul-Profiting Book”, §604, Vols. S. Schoinas, 1960, 2nd ed., pp. 28ff.) on how it was possible for St. Gregory of Nyssa to express opinions at odds with Orthodoxy (about “universal restoration”).