{"id":12459,"date":"2023-04-05T09:08:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12459"},"modified":"2023-04-01T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T13:09:57","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-5-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12459","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026 it might seem counterintuitive to give thanks for our suffering. Nevertheless, we must acknowledge that God is totally in charge of everything and that everything \u2013 and everyone \u2013 belongs to Him. God knows exactly what each of us is going through in life, including our suffering. God allows us to experience suffering for His divine purpose, because through suffering we learn how to persevere, to endure steadfastly to the very end, which is not the end, but the true, everlasting beginning.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Samuel Gantt, Orthodox\u00a0 priest in Virginia)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12460\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-C-hOGpjRE5U-unsplash-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-C-hOGpjRE5U-unsplash-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-C-hOGpjRE5U-unsplash-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/aisvri-C-hOGpjRE5U-unsplash-1024x657.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026 it might seem counterintuitive to give thanks for our suffering. Nevertheless, we must acknowledge that God is totally in charge of everything and that everything \u2013 and everyone \u2013 [&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-12459","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\/12459","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=12459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12461,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12459\/revisions\/12461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}