{"id":12608,"date":"2023-05-19T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12608"},"modified":"2023-05-10T20:14:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:14:23","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-19-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12608","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSt. Paul warns us that there are \u201crabbit trails\u201d\u2026 <em><strong>\u201cHave nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies!\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Such controversies are raging in our world right now. We would do well to completely avoid them. We can recognize them by their fruit: <em><strong>\u201cThey breed quarrels!\u201d <\/strong><\/em>One doesn\u2019t have to search these out, they seem to find us. Senseless discussions about things we cannot honestly know, yet we can become vehement about our side. The quarrels will never end. They simply keep us occupied with matters that are not leading us toward <em><strong>\u201crighteousness, faith, love, and peace.\u201d\u201d<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n(Fr Stephen Powley, \u2018An Upward Glance\u2019 blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12609\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/henrik-donnestad-t2Sai-AqIpI-unsplash-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/henrik-donnestad-t2Sai-AqIpI-unsplash-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/henrik-donnestad-t2Sai-AqIpI-unsplash-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/henrik-donnestad-t2Sai-AqIpI-unsplash-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/henrik-donnestad-t2Sai-AqIpI-unsplash-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSt. Paul warns us that there are \u201crabbit trails\u201d\u2026 \u201cHave nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies!\u201d Such controversies are raging in our world right now. We would do well [&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-12608","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\/12608","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=12608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12610,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions\/12610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}