{"id":16131,"date":"2025-11-15T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:52:02","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-november-16-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16131","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for November 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must not look at life through the glasses of our passions, nor see how we can &#8220;fit&#8221; life into being what we would like it to be\u2014whether this is a life where there is peace and quiet or where there is a lot of noise and excitement. If we try to make life &#8220;fit&#8221; like this, a total disaster will result. In looking at life, we should accept all the things which come to us as God&#8217;s providence, knowing that they are intended to wake us up from our passions. We should pray to God to show us some God-pleasing thing that we can do.\u201d<br \/>\n(Fr Seraphim Rose+,\u00a0 1982 Homily)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16132\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-060-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-060-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-060-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-060-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-060-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-060.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must not look at life through the glasses of our passions, nor see how we can &#8220;fit&#8221; life into being what we would like it to be\u2014whether this is [&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-16131","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\/16131","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=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16133,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions\/16133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}