“…when non-believers say they don’t believe in God because they never saw Him, and no one else has seen Him or can see Him, they make a gross error, applying the way we know the visible objects around us to the knowledge of God…Like any other child, I came to know God in early childhood not by external experience or reasoned arguments, but directly, by an inner perception, because I was created in the image and likeness of God. Being like God, man, thanks to this godlikeness, perceives Him internally and directly and comes to know Him.”
(Hieroschemamonk Sergei Chetverikov in orthodochristian.org)