{"id":2138,"date":"2016-06-11T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2016-06-04T21:37:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T01:37:36","slug":"wisdom-from-modern-orthodox-elders-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"WISDOM FROM MODERN ORTHODOX ELDERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f34rs\" data-offset-key=\"c814l-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c814l-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c814l-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Force yourselves in your spiritual duties for forcefulness in spiritual things is like a solid wall that does not let the River run into the garden and destroy what the gardener has labored to grow. But if we are negligent the river comes in and destroys everything&#8230; The more we compel ourselves the more we shall gain. The more one works the more he is paid.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"f34rs\" data-offset-key=\"evdks-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"evdks-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"evdks-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Elder Ephraim of Arizona in &#8216;Counsels from the Holy Mountain&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"evdks-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2058\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EphraimArizona3-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"EphraimArizona3\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EphraimArizona3-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/EphraimArizona3.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Force yourselves in your spiritual duties for forcefulness in spiritual things is like a solid wall that does not let the River run into the garden and destroy what the [&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-2138","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\/2138","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=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}