{"id":7750,"date":"2020-01-18T08:32:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T13:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2020-01-12T08:36:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T13:36:12","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-18-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7750","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like those Pharisees who appealed to Abraham as their biological ancestor and therefore sought to justify themselves, so also do \u201cwe love to glorify the saints, but we do not want to emulate them,\u201d says St. Seraphim of Sarov. Even if we cannot imitate their lives, we can strive to imitate their virtues.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Homily at the Hermitage of the Holy Cross in WV)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7751\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cropped-tea-picking-watawala-hatton-central-province-sri-lanka-conde-nast-traveller-16jan15-alamy_-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cropped-tea-picking-watawala-hatton-central-province-sri-lanka-conde-nast-traveller-16jan15-alamy_-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cropped-tea-picking-watawala-hatton-central-province-sri-lanka-conde-nast-traveller-16jan15-alamy_-768x460.jpg 768w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cropped-tea-picking-watawala-hatton-central-province-sri-lanka-conde-nast-traveller-16jan15-alamy_-1024x613.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/cropped-tea-picking-watawala-hatton-central-province-sri-lanka-conde-nast-traveller-16jan15-alamy_.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like those Pharisees who appealed to Abraham as their biological ancestor and therefore sought to justify themselves, so also do \u201cwe love to glorify the saints, but we do not [&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-7750","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\/7750","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=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}