{"id":15971,"date":"2025-10-05T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15971"},"modified":"2025-10-01T06:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:02:16","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-5-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15971","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026the Son of God came to earth and became man that He might lead man into heaven and make him once again a citizen of Paradise, returning to him his original state of sinlessness and wholeness and uniting him unto Himself. \u00a0This is accomplished by the action of Divine grace grated through the Church, but man\u2019s effort is also required. God saves His fallen creature by His own love for him, but man\u2019s love for his Creator is also necessary; without it he cannot by saved. Striving towards God and cleaving unto the Lord by its humble love, the human soul obtains power to cleanse itself from sin and to strengthen itself for the struggle to complete victory over sin.\u201d<br \/>\n(St John of San Francisco, excerpt from his teachings)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15972\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2ddf44eb7f24fea177d6ac024129442a-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2ddf44eb7f24fea177d6ac024129442a-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2ddf44eb7f24fea177d6ac024129442a-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2ddf44eb7f24fea177d6ac024129442a-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2ddf44eb7f24fea177d6ac024129442a.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026the Son of God came to earth and became man that He might lead man into heaven and make him once again a citizen of Paradise, returning to him his [&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-15971","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\/15971","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=15971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15973,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15971\/revisions\/15973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}