{"id":6012,"date":"2019-01-16T12:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2019-01-14T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:23:51","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-the-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6012","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on the Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"1mbpn-0-0\">&#8220;&#8230;when things are put in their proper place, the conscience is awakened and the censuring starts. And if a person is not humbled, he can be driven to despair because he\u2019s unable to bear the truth. But if one is humbled, he can be helped indeed&#8230;there are no people who are born with a hardened conscience. God has not created such a conscience. But when someone covers up his faults, his conscience will in time become musty and hardened and unable to break through and censure him for these faults&#8230;Of course it\u2019s self-deception.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ &#8216;Spiritual Struggle&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6013\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1460-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1460-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1460-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1460-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1460.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;when things are put in their proper place, the conscience is awakened and the censuring starts. And if a person is not humbled, he can be driven to despair because [&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-6012","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\/6012","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=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6014,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions\/6014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}