{"id":4667,"date":"2018-04-10T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2018-04-09T20:53:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T00:53:27","slug":"elder-paisios-on-a-greater-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"Elder Paisios on a Greater Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Bodytext20\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">\u201c<span style=\"color: black;\">Look, if you cause damage, and people reprimand you and you do not complain but rather are happy, saying, \u201cGlory be to God, I needed that reprimand,\u201d you have only half of the joy. But if you do not do any damage, and are unjustly reprimanded and you accept it with good thoughts, then you will have complete joy. I am not saying that you should seek unfair reprimands, because then the devil will entangle you in the sin of pride, but rather that you should accept injustice when it comes your way naturally, and be joyful in it.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4668\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vatopaidi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vatopaidi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vatopaidi-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vatopaidi-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/vatopaidi-640x480.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLook, if you cause damage, and people reprimand you and you do not complain but rather are happy, saying, \u201cGlory be to God, I needed that reprimand,\u201d you have only [&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-4667","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\/4667","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=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}