{"id":15119,"date":"2025-04-04T07:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15119"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T11:15:44","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-4-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15119","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ae62d\" data-offset-key=\"t1bf-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"t1bf-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"t1bf-0-0\">\u201cIt\u2019s very important for us to cultivate this awareness of the presence and the work of the saints in our lives. When we pay attention only to what\u2019s going on visibly on earth, we can begin to feel that there are very few people left that are seriously striving to please God in their lives. This can drag us into futile anger and morose despair. But by shifting our gaze to heaven, we come to realize how vast are the ranks of those who love nothing but to do God\u2019s will in all things\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ae62d\" data-offset-key=\"e98ng-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"e98ng-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"e98ng-0-0\">(Archimandrite Sergius of St. Tikhon\u2019s Monastery, 2018 letter)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15120\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-12-300x98.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-12-300x98.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-12-768x250.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-12-1024x333.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/4Lake-Tekapo-New-Zealand-12.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very important for us to cultivate this awareness of the presence and the work of the saints in our lives. When we pay attention only to what\u2019s going on [&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-15119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15121,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15119\/revisions\/15121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}