{"id":14850,"date":"2025-02-02T07:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14850"},"modified":"2025-02-01T07:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T12:17:33","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-february-2-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14850","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for February 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"n1pt\" data-offset-key=\"5bj3q-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5bj3q-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5bj3q-0-0\">&#8220;&#8230;when non-believers say they don\u2019t believe in God because they never saw Him, and no one else has seen Him or can see Him, they make a gross error, applying the way we know the visible objects around us to the knowledge of God&#8230;Like any other child, I came to know God in early childhood not by external experience or reasoned arguments, but directly, by an inner perception, because I was created in the image and likeness of God. Being like God, man, thanks to this godlikeness, perceives Him internally and directly and comes to know Him.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"n1pt\" data-offset-key=\"1qjpv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1qjpv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1qjpv-0-0\">(Hieroschemamonk Sergei Chetverikov in orthodochristian.org) <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1qjpv-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14851\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vintage-Farm-Girl-Image-Graphics-F-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vintage-Farm-Girl-Image-Graphics-F-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vintage-Farm-Girl-Image-Graphics-F-768x1224.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vintage-Farm-Girl-Image-Graphics-F-642x1024.jpg 642w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vintage-Farm-Girl-Image-Graphics-F.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;when non-believers say they don\u2019t believe in God because they never saw Him, and no one else has seen Him or can see Him, they make a gross error, applying [&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-14850","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\/14850","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=14850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14852,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14850\/revisions\/14852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}