{"id":14253,"date":"2024-08-29T06:22:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14253"},"modified":"2024-08-22T06:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T10:24:24","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-29-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14253","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who only hear about spiritual meditation and prayer and have no direct knowledge of it are like men blind from birth, who hear about the sunshine without ever knowing what it really is. Through this ignorance they lose many spiritual blessings, and are slow in arriving at the virtues which make for the fulfillment of God\u2019s good pleasure.\u201d<br \/>\n(St Theophane the Recluse, excerpt from his writings)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14254\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/road-265dd0211_1280-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/road-265dd0211_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/road-265dd0211_1280-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/road-265dd0211_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/road-265dd0211_1280-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/road-265dd0211_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThose who only hear about spiritual meditation and prayer and have no direct knowledge of it are like men blind from birth, who hear about the sunshine without ever knowing [&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-14253","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\/14253","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=14253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14255,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14253\/revisions\/14255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}