{"id":4532,"date":"2018-03-15T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2018-03-15T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:26:57","slug":"elder-paisios-on-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4532","title":{"rendered":"Elder Paisios on Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9b6la\" data-offset-key=\"1q3ve-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1q3ve-0-0\">\u201cThis is why I say that each person should look to see if they actually have within themselves the very same blessing they envy in someone else, or that perhaps God has given them a different one. You see, God is not unjust to anyone; He has given each person a unique gift which will help him with his spiritual progress. Just as no two people are exactly alike, one person\u2019s gift is not the same as another\u2019s. Have you ever noticed the wild peas you planted over there by the fence? They may all be derived from one root, but each has a different color and one is lovelier than the other. Still, they are not envious of another&#8230; \u201c<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9b6la\" data-offset-key=\"87o7t-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"87o7t-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"87o7t-0-0\">&#8211; \u2018Passions and Virtues\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"87o7t-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4533\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1cb5d164a6055cea8cd27b23c4ff6e13-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1cb5d164a6055cea8cd27b23c4ff6e13-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1cb5d164a6055cea8cd27b23c4ff6e13.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is why I say that each person should look to see if they actually have within themselves the very same blessing they envy in someone else, or that perhaps [&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-4532","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\/4532","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=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}