{"id":16035,"date":"2025-10-23T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16035"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T12:40:38","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-23-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16035","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ldvb\" data-offset-key=\"6ibck-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6ibck-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6ibck-0-0\">\u201cFor in guarding his mouth, and restraining his tongue, and in not speaking before examining, pondering, and weighing his words\u2014as to whether this should be said, that should be answered, or whether it be a suitable time for this remark\u2014he certainly is practicing modesty, gentleness, patience. So he will not burst out into speech through displeasure or anger, nor give sign of any passion in his words, nor proclaim that the flames of lust are burning in his language, or that the incentives of wrath are present in what he says. \u201c<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"ldvb\" data-offset-key=\"2sbi2-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2sbi2-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2sbi2-0-0\">(St Ambrose of Milan, \u2018Duties of the Clergy Bk 1)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16036\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3a-300x188.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3a-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3a.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor in guarding his mouth, and restraining his tongue, and in not speaking before examining, pondering, and weighing his words\u2014as to whether this should be said, that should be answered, [&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-16035","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\/16035","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=16035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16037,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions\/16037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}