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Date: 17 August 2005 10:21:11
O Holy Love [i.e. the Holy Spirit of God], he who knows you not has never tasted the sweetness of your mercies which only living experience can give us. But he who has known you, or who has been known by you, can never have even the smallest doubt. For you are the fulfillment of the law, you who fills, burns, inflames, embraces my heart with a measureless love. You are the teacher of the prophets, the offspring of the apostles, the strength of the martyrs, the inspiration of the fathers and masters, the perfecting of all the saints. Only you, O Love, prepare even me for the true service of God.
Saint Simeon the New Theologian, Homily 53 (11th Century)
via The Orthodox Faith : Spirituality : The Greatest Virtue is Love : God is Love, Fr Thomas Hopko