{"id":7133,"date":"2019-08-30T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2019-08-21T09:26:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:26:41","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-30-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7133","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4n33\" data-offset-key=\"3fut5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3fut5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3fut5-0-0\">\u201cIt often seems to us that God is silent. Or even more precisely, that God is absent. Often we seek God and want Him to do something, but He does not do anything&#8230;Why? Because He wants to change our way of thinking, He wants us to turn on repentance, a change of mind (metanoia) and of the very way we think, so that we move away from the worldly way of thinking, and enter God\u2019s way of thinking, which is sacrifice, love, and kenosis (emptying oneself) for another person.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"d4n33\" data-offset-key=\"9kjtn-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9kjtn-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9kjtn-0-0\">(Metropolitan Athanasius of Limassol, pravoslavie.ru)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"9kjtn-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7134\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/193333.b-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/193333.b-300x215.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/193333.b-768x551.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/193333.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt often seems to us that God is silent. Or even more precisely, that God is absent. Often we seek God and want Him to do something, but He does [&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-7133","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\/7133","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=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}