{"id":4854,"date":"2018-05-18T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2018-05-05T20:55:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T00:55:43","slug":"elder-ephraim-of-arizona-on-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4854","title":{"rendered":"Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1pfv3\" data-offset-key=\"f48h6-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f48h6-0-0\">&#8220;The beautiful road of love is effortless, and there is neither blemish nor stain in love, but rather the conscience testifies that the soul has boldness towards God. But when there is no love, the soul has no boldness in prayer, and as one defeated and cowardly, it cannot lift its head because it feels remorse for not having loved as God has loved it; it is a transgressor of the, commandment of God. If we do not love our brother whom we have seen, how can we love God whom we have not seen? He who has true love has God; whoever does not have love does not have God in himself. The holy Fathers say, \u201cIf you have seen your brother, you have seen God; your salvation depends on your brother.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"1pfv3\" data-offset-key=\"1ogma-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1ogma-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"1ogma-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;Counsels from the Holy Mountain&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"1ogma-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4855\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden_terraces_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden_terraces_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden_terraces_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden_terraces_2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/garden_terraces_2-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The beautiful road of love is effortless, and there is neither blemish nor stain in love, but rather the conscience testifies that the soul has boldness towards God. But when [&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-4854","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\/4854","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=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4856,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}