{"id":15278,"date":"2025-05-11T06:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15278"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:33:48","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-11-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15278","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God does not force the unwilling, but\u00a0 draws to Himself only those who desire\u00a0 to come&#8230;The earth brings forth nothing without rain, and without the,\u00a0 earth rain would be useless ; in the same way grace cannot work without the co-operation of a man himself, nor the human will without the co-operation of grace.&#8221;<br \/>\n(St John Chrysostom, quote from &#8216;The Devout Russian&#8217; 1918<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15279\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/prav2-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/prav2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/prav2-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/prav2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God does not force the unwilling, but\u00a0 draws to Himself only those who desire\u00a0 to come&#8230;The earth brings forth nothing without rain, and without the,\u00a0 earth rain would be useless [&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-15278","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\/15278","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=15278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15278\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}