{"id":2136,"date":"2016-06-08T01:32:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T01:35:12","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2136","title":{"rendered":"WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; The more people knock the just and honest person down the more the good God lifts him up like a cork. But it takes a lot of patience. Patience clarifies many things. Anyone who wants to live a virtuous life and be honest in his work&#8230; must be determined to take in stride from the time he begins his work that he may reach a point where he will be unable to pay his rent (for example if he has a store) before God&#8217;s blessing comes upon him.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Elder Paisios &#8216;With Pain and Love&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1567\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderPaisos3-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"ElderPaisos3\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderPaisos3-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ElderPaisos3.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; The more people knock the just and honest person down the more the good God lifts him up like a cork. But it takes a lot of patience. Patience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","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=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}