{"id":12536,"date":"2023-04-27T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2023-04-21T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:43:32","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-27-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12536","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bskae\" data-offset-key=\"a8416-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a8416-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a8416-0-0\">&#8220;Taking up the Cross and following the footsteps of Christ is not merely a formal compliance with a set of external religious or charitable acts&#8230;These acts, however, cannot be some sort of mechanical or self-affirming performance. Rather they must proceed from the depths of the heart, a heart turned completely toward Christ. Our Lord wants His followers hot, not lukewarm , as hot as the flames that burn before icons of His saints&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"bskae\" data-offset-key=\"45rde-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"45rde-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"45rde-0-0\">(Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas and the South, 2013 comments) <\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12537\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/17239775_1538800179478226_464485316906287757_o_1538800179478-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/17239775_1538800179478226_464485316906287757_o_1538800179478-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/17239775_1538800179478226_464485316906287757_o_1538800179478-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/17239775_1538800179478226_464485316906287757_o_1538800179478-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/17239775_1538800179478226_464485316906287757_o_1538800179478.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Taking up the Cross and following the footsteps of Christ is not merely a formal compliance with a set of external religious or charitable acts&#8230;These acts, however, cannot be some [&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-12536","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\/12536","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=12536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12538,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12536\/revisions\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}