{"id":6037,"date":"2019-01-18T09:37:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2019-01-14T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:39:03","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-18-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6037","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt has become \u2018bon ton\u2019 in certain Orthodox circles to say that a person has &#8220;over-prayed&#8221;: \u00a0he reads a prayer rule, canons, kathismas, and is just too pious. This is pronounced like a diagnosis. But we are taking the role of judge upon ourselves, for the most part not out of an abundance of spiritual discernment, but rather out of our own weak faith, slothfulness, and self-love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov in \u00a0\u201cCynicism is an Illness\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6038\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Crossroads3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Crossroads3-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Crossroads3-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Crossroads3.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Crossroads3-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt has become \u2018bon ton\u2019 in certain Orthodox circles to say that a person has &#8220;over-prayed&#8221;: \u00a0he reads a prayer rule, canons, kathismas, and is just too pious. This is [&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-6037","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\/6037","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=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6039,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions\/6039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}