{"id":6731,"date":"2019-06-09T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6731"},"modified":"2019-06-05T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:24:11","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-9-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6731","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"birc\" data-offset-key=\"7v2h5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7v2h5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"7v2h5-0-0\">&#8220;The disciples knew Jesus in a merely human way, and that is the problem. So often, our relationship with God is just that. It is skin-deep. We have a dose of faith in our secular life, and feel justified. Religion becomes an extra pill to calm our nerves. We would like a spoonful of faith when God prefers us to drink to the dregs. As they were, the disciples could not really know Jesus Christ. Their eyes were shut. Without the Holy Spirit within them, stretching them, transforming them, they were blind men. So it is with us.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"birc\" data-offset-key=\"ffj7l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"ffj7l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"ffj7l-0-0\">(Fr Peter Kavanaugh, &#8216;In the Desert&#8217;)<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"ffj7l-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6732\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sicily_italy_island_ocean_sea_beach_seascape_sky-973335.jpgd_-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sicily_italy_island_ocean_sea_beach_seascape_sky-973335.jpgd_-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sicily_italy_island_ocean_sea_beach_seascape_sky-973335.jpgd_-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sicily_italy_island_ocean_sea_beach_seascape_sky-973335.jpgd_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sicily_italy_island_ocean_sea_beach_seascape_sky-973335.jpgd_-480x320.jpg 480w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sicily_italy_island_ocean_sea_beach_seascape_sky-973335.jpgd_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The disciples knew Jesus in a merely human way, and that is the problem. So often, our relationship with God is just that. It is skin-deep. We have a dose [&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-6731","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\/6731","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=6731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6731\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}