{"id":15447,"date":"2025-06-13T08:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15447"},"modified":"2025-06-08T08:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T12:47:05","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-june-13-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15447","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for June 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grace is divided into three classes. Its first action is called purifying. After it purifies a person, he is given another greater gift which is called illuminating grace, that is, he receives enlightenment of spiritual knowledge. And the third grace is called perfecting\u2026if you exert yourself in the prayer and pray continuously, if you read lives of saints and toil a little at night, you will quickly obtain what you seek, and your little soul will rejoice that Christ loves you so much.<br \/>\n(Elder St Joseph the Hesychast in \u00a0&#8216;Monastic Wisdom&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15448\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/elephant-tanzania-safari-59873-300x231.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/elephant-tanzania-safari-59873-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/elephant-tanzania-safari-59873-768x592.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/elephant-tanzania-safari-59873-1024x789.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/elephant-tanzania-safari-59873.jpeg 1946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grace is divided into three classes. Its first action is called purifying. After it purifies a person, he is given another greater gift which is called illuminating grace, that is, [&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-15447","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\/15447","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=15447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15449,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15447\/revisions\/15449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}