{"id":14723,"date":"2025-01-03T05:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14723"},"modified":"2025-01-02T06:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T11:00:26","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-january-3-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=14723","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for January 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe chief thing in Christianity, according to the clear teaching of the Word of God, is the fire of divine zeal, zeal for God and His glory, the holy zeal which alone is able to inspire man in labors and struggles pleasing to God, and without which there is no authentic spiritual life and there is not and cannot be any true Christianity. Without this holy zeal Christians are \u2018Christians\u2019 in name only.\u201d<br \/>\n(Archbishop Averky+, excerpt from\u00a0 collected\u00a0 \u2018Works\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14724\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-scene-barend-cornelis-koekkoek-1848-3-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-scene-barend-cornelis-koekkoek-1848-3-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-scene-barend-cornelis-koekkoek-1848-3-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/forest-scene-barend-cornelis-koekkoek-1848-3.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe chief thing in Christianity, according to the clear teaching of the Word of God, is the fire of divine zeal, zeal for God and His glory, the holy zeal [&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-14723","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\/14723","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=14723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14725,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14723\/revisions\/14725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}