{"id":11627,"date":"2022-08-21T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2022-08-13T20:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T00:40:45","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-21-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=11627","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost people want to gain the kingdom without sweat and effort. They admire the saints and want their honor and gifts, but they don\u2019t want to share in the pains and torments they undergo. Everybody, including harlots, publicans and every other person, wants the kingdom, which is why there are trials and temptations: to show those who really love the Lord and who have justly gained the kingdom of heaven.\u201d<br \/>\n(Saint Makarios \u00a0of Egypt, quotes of Desert Fathers)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11628\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wroadds-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wroadds-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wroadds-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wroadds-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wroadds.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMost people want to gain the kingdom without sweat and effort. They admire the saints and want their honor and gifts, but they don\u2019t want to share in the pains [&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-11627","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\/11627","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=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11630,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions\/11630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}