{"id":10171,"date":"2021-08-11T09:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2021-08-08T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:02:23","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-11-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10171","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026the majority limit perfection to a strict observance of all the rules and practices laid down by the statutes, falling into no excess or deficiency, but preserving a golden moderation. Yet all these virtues do not by themselves constitute the Christian perfection we are seeking, but are only a means and a method for acquiring it.\u00a0 You must learn that perfection consists in nothing but coming near to God and union with Him, as was said in the beginning.\u201d<br \/>\n(St. Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain,\u00a0 \u2018Unseen Warfare\u2019)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10172\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10172\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10172\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fDSC09793-copy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fDSC09793-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fDSC09793-copy-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fDSC09793-copy-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fDSC09793-copy-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/fDSC09793-copy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SONY DSC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026the majority limit perfection to a strict observance of all the rules and practices laid down by the statutes, falling into no excess or deficiency, but preserving a golden moderation. [&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-10171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}