{"id":13897,"date":"2024-05-20T09:42:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T13:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2024-05-14T19:44:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T23:44:49","slug":"orthodox-quote-or-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13897","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote or May 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are some who believe external deeds, an external calmness, or a rudimentary (or alleged) struggle for the faith makes them teachers, counselors and judges of the whole world. They can say \u2018Forgive me\u2019 or \u2018I, the sinner\u2019 as much as they want, but they don\u2019t mean it It\u2019s strange and much to be wondered at how often the extent to which we confess our faith or defend tradition is anchored in the most uncompromising egotism. When there\u2019s no real humility, the heart becomes as hard as flint and sinks into the abyss of obdurate opinion, sometimes even of ingratitude. And that is what we call delusion.\u201d<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pemptousia.com\/?post_type=author&amp;p=52344\">Hieromonk Chrysostomos Koutloumousianos <\/a>, excerpt from spiritual talk)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13898\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pexels-photo-3830880-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pexels-photo-3830880-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/pexels-photo-3830880.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are some who believe external deeds, an external calmness, or a rudimentary (or alleged) struggle for the faith makes them teachers, counselors and judges of the whole world. They [&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-13897","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\/13897","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=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13899,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}