{"id":1824,"date":"2016-03-03T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T20:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2016-03-03T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T15:23:06","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The reconciliation of people is one thing, while the reconciliation of religions is another. Christianity requires all of us to love everyone with all our hearts, whatever faith they may have.\u00a0 At the same time we are ordered to keep our faith and doctrines intact.\u00a0 As Christians you must be merciful to the while world, to all people. Even your life you should give on their behalf.\u00a0 But you have no right to touch the truths of Christ. Because they are not yours. The faith of Christ is not our property to do with it as we wish.&#8221;<br \/>\n(St. Nikolai Velimirovich, quote from mystagogy.com)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1485\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"StNikolai\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/StNikolai.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The reconciliation of people is one thing, while the reconciliation of religions is another. Christianity requires all of us to love everyone with all our hearts, whatever faith they may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-orthodox-elders","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","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=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}