{"id":15150,"date":"2025-04-12T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15150"},"modified":"2025-04-05T20:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T00:46:27","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-12-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15150","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3881p\" data-offset-key=\"3j2ic-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3j2ic-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3j2ic-0-0\">\u201cWe should not seek pleasure in prayer, not even spiritual pleasure. Otherwise, we become like the kind of children that love their father only because he gives them caramels and chocolates. The peace of our souls is what should be sought in prayer.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"3881p\" data-offset-key=\"a29su-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"a29su-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a29su-0-0\">(Elder St. Paisios in \u2018St. Paisios the Hagiorite\u2019)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15151\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14-day-Rocky-Mountains-Fall-18-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14-day-Rocky-Mountains-Fall-18-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14-day-Rocky-Mountains-Fall-18-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14-day-Rocky-Mountains-Fall-18-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14-day-Rocky-Mountains-Fall-18-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/14-day-Rocky-Mountains-Fall-18.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe should not seek pleasure in prayer, not even spiritual pleasure. Otherwise, we become like the kind of children that love their father only because he gives them caramels and [&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-15150","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\/15150","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=15150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15152,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15150\/revisions\/15152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}