{"id":12605,"date":"2023-05-18T08:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12605"},"modified":"2023-05-10T20:11:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:11:56","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-18-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12605","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChrist respects people\u2019s freedom to accept or reject Him. However, his final judgement shows us that He also respects His own freedom, not only ours, namely, the freedom to evaluate what we have done with our freedom. Has freedom brought us closer to God, or has it taken us further away?\u201d<br \/>\n(Patriarch Daniel of Romania, Homily 04\/22)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12606\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/birmingham-museums-trust-6fv0MEf3FUE-unsplash-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/birmingham-museums-trust-6fv0MEf3FUE-unsplash-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/birmingham-museums-trust-6fv0MEf3FUE-unsplash-768x1082.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/birmingham-museums-trust-6fv0MEf3FUE-unsplash-727x1024.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChrist respects people\u2019s freedom to accept or reject Him. However, his final judgement shows us that He also respects His own freedom, not only ours, namely, the freedom to evaluate [&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-12605","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\/12605","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=12605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12607,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12605\/revisions\/12607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}