{"id":12754,"date":"2023-06-28T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T12:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12754"},"modified":"2023-06-25T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T12:54:22","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-28-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=12754","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the time of the iconoclasts ten Christians who stoutly defended the icon of Christ at the Bronze Door of the palace in Constantinople were martyred for it. Now Christ&#8217;s person is being blasphemed and we must not be indifferent. If knowledgeable and discerning people like us lived at that time they would have said to the ten martyrs, \u2018That&#8217;s not how to be spiritual. So the Emperor&#8217;s soldiers are coming to destroy the icon \u2013 never mind. When things change we will put another icon there and it&#8217;ll even be more Byzantine.\u2019 We try to make our downfall, our cowardice, are self-serving attitude appear to be something exalted. It makes me shudder.&#8221;<br \/>\n(St Paisios \u00a0in \u2018Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12755\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/gains4-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/gains4-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/gains4.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the time of the iconoclasts ten Christians who stoutly defended the icon of Christ at the Bronze Door of the palace in Constantinople were martyred for it. Now Christ&#8217;s [&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-12754","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\/12754","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=12754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12756,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12754\/revisions\/12756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}