{"id":13985,"date":"2024-06-10T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13985"},"modified":"2024-06-08T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:37:00","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-10-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=13985","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn reality, self-compulsion is the very basis of prayer. Clearly, prayer without desire does not come close to a sincere and voluntary appeal to God. However, it is useful to ask ourselves, \u201cHow often do I feel the desire to pray? The honest answer to this would be \u201cNot very often\u201d, and that is the whole point. If we turned to God only when we felt the desire, we would probably pray, at best, once every couple of months. This is why prayer under compulsion is so widespread in church. It helps us develop the prayer skill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(From \u2018The Catalogue of Good Deeds\u2019 blog)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13986\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pir-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pir-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pir-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pir-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pir-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/pir.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn reality, self-compulsion is the very basis of prayer. Clearly, prayer without desire does not come close to a sincere and voluntary appeal to God. However, it is useful to [&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-13985","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\/13985","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=13985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13987,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13985\/revisions\/13987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}