{"id":13748,"date":"2024-04-07T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13748"},"modified":"2024-04-01T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T00:01:58","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-7-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13748","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"c8d63\" data-offset-key=\"bqvog-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bqvog-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"bqvog-0-0\">&#8220;Grace is nothing other than the Life of God. In proper theological terms (of the Eastern Church) grace is the uncreated Divine energies. But that phrase, unless correctly understood can be all to confusing. I prefer to speak either of grace or of God\u2019s own Life, freely given to us. First, grace is a gift. You don\u2019t have to go anywhere to get what you already have been given. What we need to do is allow the grace of God to work in us what God intends.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"c8d63\" data-offset-key=\"f5mv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f5mv-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"f5mv-0-0\">(Fr. Stephen Freeman; 2013 article) <\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"f5mv-0-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/44109086_candles_ap_4161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13749\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/44109086_candles_ap_4161-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/44109086_candles_ap_4161-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/44109086_candles_ap_4161.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grace is nothing other than the Life of God. In proper theological terms (of the Eastern Church) grace is the uncreated Divine energies. But that phrase, unless correctly understood can [&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-13748","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\/13748","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=13748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13750,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13748\/revisions\/13750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}