{"id":5857,"date":"2018-12-16T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2018-12-08T20:56:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T01:56:40","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-laziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5857","title":{"rendered":"Elder St. Porphyrios on Laziness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you see someone who is indolent, then the person is sick in the soul. Often when we see a quiet, discreet and circumspect person, we say, A very fine and saintly person.\u2019 And yet he may be indolent. The indolent, sluggard and lazy are not acceptable in the eyes of God. Laziness is a very bad thing. Indolence is an\u00a0 illness; it is a sin. God does not want us to be indolent.\u00a0 Can you live fit\u00a0 in \u2018 idleness and ill-discipline? You say, \u2018I forgot to close the door on leaving the room\u2019, for example. What does \u2018I forgot\u2019 mean? You should remember and pay attention! On the contrary, constant effort, movement, work\u00a0 and activity are a virtue. Physical exertion is a struggle, a spiritual struggle. The more thoughtless you are, the more you are tormented. On the contrary, the more scrupulous and careful you are, the happier you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5858\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/0525-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/0525-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/0525.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you see someone who is indolent, then the person is sick in the soul. Often when we see a quiet, discreet and circumspect person, we say, A very fine [&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-5857","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\/5857","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=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}