{"id":3641,"date":"2017-07-17T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2017-07-13T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T14:19:33","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-july-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3641","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6roqa\" data-offset-key=\"dmi97-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dmi97-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"dmi97-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Prayer, fasting, vigil and all other Christian activities, however good they may be in themselves, do not constitute the aim of our Christian life, although they serve as the indispensable means of reaching this end. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ&#8217;s sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6roqa\" data-offset-key=\"6uqje-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6uqje-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6uqje-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(St. Seraphim of Sarov, &#8216;Conversations&#8217;)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6roqa\" data-offset-key=\"aq0oa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"aq0oa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"aq0oa-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6roqa\" data-offset-key=\"4ktif-0-0\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3642\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/a1050020008-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"a1050020008\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/a1050020008-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/a1050020008-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/a1050020008.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Prayer, fasting, vigil and all other Christian activities, however good they may be in themselves, do not constitute the aim of our Christian life, although they serve as the indispensable [&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-3641","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\/3641","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=3641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3643,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3641\/revisions\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}