His close friend, Gregory Nazianzen, took up this same feature of God and commented upon it. The Divine is infinite and difficult to contemplate. Elsewhere he states the basis for his apophatic theology, namely his conviction that we cannot so much as ascribe any quality properly to God, for He is without defining limits of form or time. St. Basil's brother, Gregory of Nyssa, followed up this same line of thought and developed it further. Nothing can be affirmed concerning the excellence of the power, or goodness or any of the qualities of the being of that heavenly nature.
Infinity is the same as limitlessness.
To think that there is a greater or lesser abundance of that infinite and surpassingly great being is the height of madness. In treating of the nature of the infinite, Gregory speaks of experiencing the kind of dizziness that comes upon one who stands at the edge of a great precipice when he dwells on the greatness of God. The mind can, through curiosity, run through all that is knowable, but in no manner can it discover a way to run through the concept of eternity so that it might station itself outside and have an overview of all it has seen and of eternity itself. That God is greater than anything that can be predicated of Him means that he remains unknowable even as He is approached more closely. Accompanying this sensitivity to God's infinitude and transcendence is a sharp awareness of the brevity of time.