{"id":11053,"date":"2022-03-28T09:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11053"},"modified":"2022-03-20T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T13:43:46","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-march-28-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11053","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI believe that man &#8220;works&#8221; for his salvation. Salvation is not imposed upon him in spite of himself as [the]&#8230;doctrine of predestination would have it, nor is it obtained solely by the endeavors of human will&#8230;Salvation is synergetic, that is, man co-operates in the work of his salvation. God does not take upon Himself the role which belongs to man; likewise, man can attain to nothing by his own efforts alone&#8230;This is the true meaning of the words of the Holy Fathers, &#8220;although it be a question of grace, yet grace is granted only to those who are worthy of it&#8221; indicating by the word &#8220;worthy&#8221; the exercise of our freedom of will to ask all things from God.\u201d<br \/>\n(Bishop Alexander (Mileant), 21st Century American Orthodox hierarch)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11054\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/abq-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/abq-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/abq.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI believe that man &#8220;works&#8221; for his salvation. Salvation is not imposed upon him in spite of himself as [the]&#8230;doctrine of predestination would have it, nor is it obtained solely [&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-11053","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\/11053","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=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}