{"id":5485,"date":"2018-09-25T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2018-09-12T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:48:33","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5485","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f8mui\" data-offset-key=\"fvfqm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fvfqm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fvfqm-0-0\">&#8220;The God who is merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, who gives us his divine life and peace and joy forever, is first of all the Divine Lover who wounds His beloved, and then hides from her, hoping to be sought and found. He is the Father who chastens and disciplines His children&#8230;He is the Potter who continually smashes and refashions and re-bakes His muddy clay so that it can be the earthen vessel that He wants it to be, capable of bearing His own transcendent grace and power and glory and peace.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f8mui\" data-offset-key=\"dvuoj-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dvuoj-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dvuoj-0-0\">(Fr. Thomas Hopko+ &#8216;The Violent Love of God&#8217;)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"dvuoj-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5486\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5607efae3b38b427430f6a70670055d9-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5607efae3b38b427430f6a70670055d9-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5607efae3b38b427430f6a70670055d9-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5607efae3b38b427430f6a70670055d9-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5607efae3b38b427430f6a70670055d9.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The God who is merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, who gives us his divine life and peace and joy forever, is first of all [&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-5485","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\/5485","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=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}