{"id":10548,"date":"2021-11-17T08:46:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2021-11-07T08:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T13:48:36","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-november-17-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for November 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Lord allows the enemy to tempt us in order to prove us, in order to strengthen our spiritual powers in our struggle against the enemy, and so that we ourselves may see more clearly towards what our heart inclines, whether it inclines to patience, hope, and love and in general to virtue, or to irritability, incredulity, murmuring, blasphemy, malice, and despair. Therefore we must not be despondent, but must good-humouredly and patiently bear spiritual darkness that descends upon our soul\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(St John of Kronstadt,\u00a0 \u2018My Life in Christ\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10549\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nature___Rivers_and_lakes_Dark_clouds_over_the_forest_near_the_lake_104852_-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nature___Rivers_and_lakes_Dark_clouds_over_the_forest_near_the_lake_104852_-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nature___Rivers_and_lakes_Dark_clouds_over_the_forest_near_the_lake_104852_-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Nature___Rivers_and_lakes_Dark_clouds_over_the_forest_near_the_lake_104852_-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Lord allows the enemy to tempt us in order to prove us, in order to strengthen our spiritual powers in our struggle against the enemy, and so that we [&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-10548","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\/10548","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=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10550,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/10550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}