{"id":11614,"date":"2022-08-18T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11614"},"modified":"2022-08-09T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T13:09:06","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-18-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11614","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn any case, I have found that when a man, while struggling, continues to make the same mistakes and does not change, the reason is usually egoism, self-love and self-interest. Humility and love are missing, thus blocking divine intervention. The person himself does not allow God to help him.\u201d<br \/>\n(Elder St Paisios, \u2018Spiritual Struggle\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11615\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hybridrice-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hybridrice-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hybridrice-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hybridrice.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn any case, I have found that when a man, while struggling, continues to make the same mistakes and does not change, the reason is usually egoism, self-love and self-interest. [&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-11614","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\/11614","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=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11616,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions\/11616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}