{"id":5811,"date":"2018-12-03T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2018-12-01T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T14:37:36","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5811","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026it consists in nothing but coming near to God and union with Him. With this is connected a heartfelt realization of the goodness and greatness of\u00a0 God, together with consciousness of our own nothingness and our proness to every evil;&#8230;renunciation of all will of our own and\u00a0perfect obedience to the will of God; and moreover desire of all this and its practice with a pure heart to the glory of God, from sheer desire to please God and because we should so love Him and work for Him. This is the law of love, inscribed by the finger of God in the hearts of His true servants!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain on the spiritual life and perfection)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5812\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/298650.b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/298650.b-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/298650.b-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/298650.b-480x320.jpg 480w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/298650.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026it consists in nothing but coming near to God and union with Him. With this is connected a heartfelt realization of the goodness and greatness of\u00a0 God, together with consciousness [&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-5811","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\/5811","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=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}