{"id":15729,"date":"2025-08-16T07:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15729"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:37:16","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-16-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15729","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"72lhd\" data-offset-key=\"6rhc-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6rhc-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6rhc-0-0\">\u201cI know full well that in the depths of the monasteries and in the silence of the cells, the compelling writings in defense of our Church are currently in the making\u2026 They take their time and, knowing what is required of such matter, they do their work with deep calm, in prayer and self-edification, driving out of their soul anything that is passionate, that resembles an ill timed, delirious fever, elevating their soul to the height of heavenly dispassion it was designed to have\u2014all in order to be in a position to talk about such a subject\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"72lhd\" data-offset-key=\"73p10-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"73p10-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"73p10-0-0\">(Author Nikolai Gogol , \u2018Selected Passages from Correspondence\u2019)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15730\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mt-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mt-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mt-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mt-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI know full well that in the depths of the monasteries and in the silence of the cells, the compelling writings in defense of our Church are currently in the [&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-15729","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\/15729","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=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15731,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions\/15731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}