{"id":5703,"date":"2018-11-09T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5703"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:49:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:49:09","slug":"st-seraphim-of-sarov-on-good-deeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5703","title":{"rendered":"St. Seraphim of Sarov on &#8216;Good&#8217; Deeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3atlg\" data-offset-key=\"41o6p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"41o6p-0-0\">\u201cBut mark, my son, only the good deed done for Christ&#8217;s sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ&#8217;s sake, even though it be good, brings neither reward in the future life nor the grace of God in this. That is why our Lord Jesus Christ said: \u2018He who gathers not with Me scatters\u2019.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3atlg\" data-offset-key=\"ftvs-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ftvs-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ftvs-0-0\"> &#8211; \u2018Conversation with Motovilov\u2019)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"ftvs-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5704\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/religious-tourism-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/religious-tourism-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/religious-tourism-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/religious-tourism-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/religious-tourism.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut mark, my son, only the good deed done for Christ&#8217;s sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ&#8217;s sake, even though [&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-5703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703","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=5703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5705,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5703\/revisions\/5705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}