{"id":4813,"date":"2018-05-13T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2018-05-05T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T13:41:32","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-13-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=4813","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Therefore the purpose of life is not to become like Christ in order to be saved: it is not a means to an end. This is the very purpose of our lives, to be perfected and glorified. Holiness itself is the goal&#8230;we are not trying to win God\u2019s favor, but through His Divine work in us become like His Son.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Fr. Spyridon Bailey in &#8216;The Ancient Path&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4814\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/stock-photo-18349925-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/stock-photo-18349925-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/stock-photo-18349925-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/stock-photo-18349925-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/stock-photo-18349925.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Therefore the purpose of life is not to become like Christ in order to be saved: it is not a means to an end. This is the very purpose of [&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-4813","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\/4813","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=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}