{"id":16050,"date":"2025-10-23T08:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16050"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:58:53","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-october-27-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=16050","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for October 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Default\">\u201c\u2026if man is created according to the image and likeness of God, then it\u2019s to Him alone that man should strive. The basis of this striving for God must be humility before God, unlimited devotion to Him as Creator and Almighty, and boundless love for Him as the infinite Good. Without these qualities, the pursuit of God is pride\u2014the greatest sin\u2014because in this case it represents a seizure of the Divine without God\u2019s will, and a self-willed\u2014and therefore\u2014criminal likening of oneself to God \u2026\u201d<br \/>\n(Schema-Archimandrite Kyrik+ of Mt. Athos, teachings)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16051\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4c-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4c-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4c.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/>27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026if man is created according to the image and likeness of God, then it\u2019s to Him alone that man should strive. The basis of this striving for God must be [&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-16050","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\/16050","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=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16052,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions\/16052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}