{"id":4644,"date":"2018-04-09T09:33:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2018-04-01T08:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:35:16","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-april-9-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4644","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for April  9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Roboto; color: #222222;\">\u201cGrace always abides in believers as energy, because without grace, no one would even be able to believe. But grace manifests as a sensation when it wants to help someone who is tired and exhausted in the spiritual battle, or he is threatened with some kind of spiritual danger&#8230;Now you have ascended to the first step\u2014renunciation and wandering. Now the feeling of grace has receded for you to begin obedience to the Divine will and that by your own labor and fidelity you would be deserving of grace. This is why you do not feel grace right now as you did earlier when it called you.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: Roboto; color: #222222;\">(Elder Joseph the Hesychast speaking to Schemamonk George)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4645\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC07004-Horses-near-Tonopah-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC07004-Horses-near-Tonopah-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC07004-Horses-near-Tonopah-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC07004-Horses-near-Tonopah-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC07004-Horses-near-Tonopah-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC07004-Horses-near-Tonopah.jpg 1037w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrace always abides in believers as energy, because without grace, no one would even be able to believe. But grace manifests as a sensation when it wants to help someone [&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-4644","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\/4644","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=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}