{"id":15907,"date":"2025-09-28T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15907"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:41:16","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-28-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15907","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are at least as clumsy and unfaithful as the disciples of old, even though we are in much better position than they. They had heard the Christ say that he would be crucified, but we know that his Crucifixion is the salvation of the world. Christ had assured them that he would rise, but we have their witness and testimony that he is risen and lives and reigns forevermore\u2026Despite our great advantages, however, our behavior is, at best, no different than theirs. We know that our crosses, if we bear them faithfully, will lead to resurrection, but so often we run away from the Cross in our lives.\u201d<br \/>\n(Metropolitan Tikhon of the OCA, \u2018Reflections in Christ\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15908\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2e42e1c753ef0d39fd4c7600342b9562-the-grass-the-he-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2e42e1c753ef0d39fd4c7600342b9562-the-grass-the-he-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2e42e1c753ef0d39fd4c7600342b9562-the-grass-the-he.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are at least as clumsy and unfaithful as the disciples of old, even though we are in much better position than they. They had heard the Christ say that [&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-15907","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\/15907","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=15907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15909,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions\/15909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}