{"id":12386,"date":"2023-03-16T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2023-03-05T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T13:41:56","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-16-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12386","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe humans, through our own, God-given, free will, have the capacity to turn our backs on God, to reject God. It\u2019s not that God cannot forgive us, but God will only do what is holy and righteous. We, however, in our own selfish unforgiveness, block God from forgiving us \u2014 we reject His forgiveness, knowingly or unknowingly \u2014 we shut God out. God will not enter an unrepentant, hardened heart.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Samuel Gantt, retired Orthodox priest)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12387\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaq2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaq2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaq2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaq2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaq2-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/aaq2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe humans, through our own, God-given, free will, have the capacity to turn our backs on God, to reject God. It\u2019s not that God cannot forgive us, but God will [&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-12386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12388,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12386\/revisions\/12388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}