{"id":2924,"date":"2017-02-04T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:30:36","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-february-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=2924","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for February 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86d18\" data-offset-key=\"dpv0f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dpv0f-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dpv0f-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;It is an excellent custom with Christians, and one pleasing to God, to have an icon of the Savior and to pray to Him before it. This is a crying necessity of our soul. The Lord Himself, with the love which is proper to Him, desires to be formed in us&#8230;But how can I form Christ in my heart if I do not first represent Him sensibly before my eyes? Thus we have images of the Saviour, of the Mother of God, and others.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86d18\" data-offset-key=\"b6hk8-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"b6hk8-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"b6hk8-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(St. John of Kronstadt in \u2018My Life in Christ\u2019)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86d18\" data-offset-key=\"9c7ao-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9c7ao-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9c7ao-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"86d18\" data-offset-key=\"edt44-0-0\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2925\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/athosnicholosicon-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"athosnicholosicon\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/athosnicholosicon-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/athosnicholosicon.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is an excellent custom with Christians, and one pleasing to God, to have an icon of the Savior and to pray to Him before it. This is a crying [&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-2924","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\/2924","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=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}