{"id":12065,"date":"2022-12-13T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12065"},"modified":"2022-12-10T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T01:45:48","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-13-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12065","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn its Greek form, the term \u2018true piety\u2019 comes from a word meaning \u2018to serve well\u2019. If some people say that \u2018to serve well\u2019 is the same thing as faith, let them explain how it is possible to fear the Lord before believing in Him. Does one not first believe in the Lord and then fear Him? Hence faith gives rise to fear, and from fear comes true piety.\u201d<br \/>\n(St Peter Damascene in \u2018The Philokalia\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12066\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rivtr-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rivtr-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rivtr-768x353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rivtr-1024x470.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn its Greek form, the term \u2018true piety\u2019 comes from a word meaning \u2018to serve well\u2019. If some people say that \u2018to serve well\u2019 is the same thing as faith, [&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-12065","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\/12065","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=12065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12067,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12065\/revisions\/12067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}