SO GOOD QUOTES

As we begin to grow in our knowledge of God, St. Isaac tells us, we begin to really love: love both God and neighbour. This knowledge of God is not a knowledge about God, not what most Protestant and Catholic Christians would refer to as a “theological” knowledge.  Rather, this knowledge of God that St. Isaac is talking about is a personal knowledge, a knowledge of encounter, an intuitive knowledge based on experience.  It is what Orthodox writers usually mean when they speak of theological knowledge.  It’s not something that one can get from a book—although many saints and saintly people have written about their theological knowledge.

—Fr. Michael Gillis, A Small Affliction Born For God’s Sake