Love is beyond time and is always in power. Some think that God has suffered for us out of love, but since they cannot feel this love in their heart, it seems an old story to them. But when our soul knows the love of God through the Holy Spirit, then he feels that God is like a Father for us, the closest, the dearest and kindest and that there is no greater joy than to love God, as our Lord commanded, and your neighbour as yourself. And when this love is from your heart, then your soul is happy, but if man loses it, he can’t find his peace, and gets mad with everybody else, without understanding that it’s his fault: of losing the love of God and of hating his brother.

(Translated from Cuviosul Siluan Athonitul, Între iadul deznădejdii și iadul smereniei, Editura Deisis, p. 154)