{"id":15026,"date":"2025-03-15T07:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15026"},"modified":"2025-03-09T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T11:50:17","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-15-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15026","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God in order to punish as well as cure our readiness for pleasure, established pain and death into human nature, to follow it everywhere and appear unwillingly. Because human nature prefers irrational pleasure, the equivalent pain, with all its innumerable hardships which cause death, has been invented in order to completely destroy pleasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi+ &#8216;Significance of Pain&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15027\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God in order to punish as well as cure our readiness for pleasure, established pain and death into human nature, to follow it everywhere and appear unwillingly. Because human nature [&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-15026","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\/15026","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=15026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15028,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15026\/revisions\/15028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}