{"id":5177,"date":"2018-07-21T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2018-07-14T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T13:41:13","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-july-21-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5177","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for July 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday, however, prosperity with relation to Orthodox Faith has become no small trial for Christians. Do you remember in the book of Revelations, \u2018Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked (Rev. 3:17)\u2019? Our faith has become scarce, and therefore many people get tired of being Orthodox from looking at us. They are still going on the inertia from their first love; they still remember how much they received in the Church, and hope yet to receive grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov in \u00a0\u201cCynicism is an Illness\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5178\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/martin-child-early-morning-reflections-in-moraine-lake-banff-national-park-unesco-world-heritage-site-alberta-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/martin-child-early-morning-reflections-in-moraine-lake-banff-national-park-unesco-world-heritage-site-alberta-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/martin-child-early-morning-reflections-in-moraine-lake-banff-national-park-unesco-world-heritage-site-alberta.jpg 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday, however, prosperity with relation to Orthodox Faith has become no small trial for Christians. Do you remember in the book of Revelations, \u2018Because thou sayest, I am rich, and [&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-5177","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\/5177","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=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5179,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}