“Usually, at the beginning, when someone strives to become a Christian, he reads the Gospel, trying to get to know Christ to the best of his ability, then goes to Church and through people who serve God he tries to get to know Christ, thereby creating in himself a feeling of what it is like to be a Christian. And then this personal quality is transferred from the inside to the outside… in general, a person feels from the inside that he is a Christian, and how this will manifest itself from the outside varies in every specific situation. “
(Priest Alexei Shishkin, interview in pravoslavie.ru)