{"id":15047,"date":"2025-03-21T07:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2025-03-11T07:49:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:49:40","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-21-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15047","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fm5su\" data-offset-key=\"2sgp4-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2sgp4-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2sgp4-0-0\">\u201cNo matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not known by science, but by the Holy Spirit. Many philosophers and learned men came to the belief that God exists, but they did not know God. It is one thing to believe that God exists and another to know Him. If someone has come to know God by the Holy Spirit, his soul will burn with love for God day and night, and his soul cannot be bound to any earthly thing.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"fm5su\" data-offset-key=\"bne34-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bne34-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bne34-0-0\"> (St. Silouan the Athonite, Writings 8.3)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15048\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/75-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/75-170x300.jpg 170w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/75.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo matter how much we may study, it is not possible to come to know God unless we live according to His commandments, for God is not known by science, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15049,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15047\/revisions\/15049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}