{"id":3688,"date":"2017-07-28T10:11:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2017-07-22T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T01:14:14","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-july-28-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for July 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"21ibe\" data-offset-key=\"c6ot0-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c6ot0-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c6ot0-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">&#8220;Western man is desperate to be in control of his life, to feel he can trust in what he has achieved or built. But the Church teaches us to let go of any such assurances, to recognize our weakness and need for God. When we are humble and truly recognize our dependence on God alone we are moving towards Theosis.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"21ibe\" data-offset-key=\"8fk44-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8fk44-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"8fk44-0-0\"><span data-text=\"true\">(Fr Spyridon Baily, comments by an Athonite monk)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8fk44-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3689\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/c1052801670-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"c1052801670\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/c1052801670-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/c1052801670-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/c1052801670.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Western man is desperate to be in control of his life, to feel he can trust in what he has achieved or built. But the Church teaches us to let [&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-3688","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\/3688","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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3690,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/3690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}