{"id":6341,"date":"2019-03-19T09:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:55:12","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-19-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6341","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;there are insolent individuals who ask, \u201cWhy did God create hell\u201d? Once we start criticizing God, we are no longer in a spiritual state. We no longer have the Grace of God to deepen our understanding about the reasons for which God acts. The question \u201cWhy?\u201d is a judgment; it is pride, egoism.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder St Paisios in \u2018With Pain and Love)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6342\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/E75C5D7F-E2C9-40D4-98CE-18A850E25C86_w1023_s-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/E75C5D7F-E2C9-40D4-98CE-18A850E25C86_w1023_s-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/E75C5D7F-E2C9-40D4-98CE-18A850E25C86_w1023_s-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/E75C5D7F-E2C9-40D4-98CE-18A850E25C86_w1023_s-480x320.jpg 480w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/E75C5D7F-E2C9-40D4-98CE-18A850E25C86_w1023_s.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;there are insolent individuals who ask, \u201cWhy did God create hell\u201d? Once we start criticizing God, we are no longer in a spiritual state. We no longer have the Grace [&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-6341","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\/6341","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=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}