{"id":16026,"date":"2025-10-20T08:32:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16026"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:34:26","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-20-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16026","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe devil tries to soil and defile every good thing a man would do by intermingling with it his own seeds in the form of self-esteem, presumption, complaint, and other things of this kind, so that what we do is not done for God alone, or with a glad heart. Abel offered a sacrifice to God of the fat and firstlings of his flock, while Cain offered gifts of the fruits of the earth, but not of the firstfruits; and that is why God looked with favor on Abel\u2019s sacrifices, but paid no attention to Cain\u2019s gifts (cf. Gen. 4:3-5). This shows us that it is possible to do something good in the wrong way\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n(St Makarios of Egypt, homily in the Philokalia)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16027\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6h6-300x269.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6h6-300x269.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6h6.jpeg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe devil tries to soil and defile every good thing a man would do by intermingling with it his own seeds in the form of self-esteem, presumption, complaint, and other [&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-16026","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\/16026","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=16026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16028,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16026\/revisions\/16028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}