{"id":1764,"date":"2016-02-16T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T14:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2016-02-14T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:44:54","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"epk7h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"epk7h-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"epk7h-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;I once met a theologian who was extremely pious, but who had the habit of speaking to the (secular) people around him in a very blunt manner; his method penetrated so deeply that it shook them very severely. He told me once: \u201cDuring a gathering, I said such and such a thing to a lady.\u201d But the way that he said it, crushed her. \u201cLook\u201d, I said to him, \u201cyou may be tossing golden crowns studded with diamonds to other people, but the way that you throw them can smash heads, not only the sensitive ones, but the sound ones also.\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-offset-key=\"4l0t0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4l0t0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4l0t0-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos, Fr. Luke Hartung translation)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4l0t0-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1765\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elderpaisiosicon2\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2-230x300.jpg 230w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Elderpaisiosicon2.jpg 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I once met a theologian who was extremely pious, but who had the habit of speaking to the (secular) people around him in a very blunt manner; his method penetrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","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=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}