{"id":4791,"date":"2018-05-06T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2018-05-03T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T12:38:11","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4791","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"b8jt8\" data-offset-key=\"5760q-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5760q-0-0\">&#8220;&#8230;if we don\u2019t want to lose out in vain, worldly gains, how much more must we be careful not to harm ourselves spiritually! Worldly people seek material gain and don\u2019t let it go to waste; is it right for spiritual people to throw away spiritual gain? But even if worldly people spend the money they have, they are at least wasting only material things, while we, when we do not accept an injustice, waste spiritual and heavenly things. We consume everything down here. Why trade the heavenly for the earthly?&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"b8jt8\" data-offset-key=\"29hfk-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"29hfk-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"29hfk-0-0\"> &#8211; &#8216;Spiritual Struggle&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"29hfk-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4792\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MtAthosKaroulia-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MtAthosKaroulia-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MtAthosKaroulia-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MtAthosKaroulia-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/MtAthosKaroulia.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;if we don\u2019t want to lose out in vain, worldly gains, how much more must we be careful not to harm ourselves spiritually! Worldly people seek material gain and don\u2019t [&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-4791","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\/4791","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=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}