{"id":14986,"date":"2025-03-06T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14986"},"modified":"2025-03-02T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:31:56","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-6-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14986","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the Monastery of the Flavians in Asia Minor, the Turks had captured a man and slaughtered him. Then they told his wife, &#8216;Either deny Christ or we will kill your children, too.&#8217; And she replied, &#8216;My husband is now with Christ, and my children I entrust to Christ, and I will not renounce Christ.&#8217; What bravery! If Christ is not in us, how can there be such bravery? Today, people without Christ are building their homes on rubble.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder St Paisios in &#8216;Spiritual Awakening&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14987\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the Monastery of the Flavians in Asia Minor, the Turks had captured a man and slaughtered him. Then they told his wife, &#8216;Either deny Christ or we will kill [&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-14986","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\/14986","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=14986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14988,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions\/14988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}