{"id":5570,"date":"2018-10-12T12:54:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2018-10-11T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:00:11","slug":"elder-st-porphyrios-on-the-outward-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Porphyrios on the Outward Appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf, for example, you see a woman immodestly dressed, don\u2019t have regard only for her outward appearance, but look more deeply into her soul. She may be a very good soul with an existential restlessness, which she expresses through her shocking appearance. She has a dynamism within her, the power of self-projection; she wishes to attract the eyes of others. But through lack of awareness she has distorted things. Think what would happen if she were to come to know Christ. She would believe and she would turn all her passion towards Christ. She would do everything to attract the grace of God. She would become a saint.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is a kind of self-projection of our own when we insist on other people becoming good. In reality, we wish to become good, but because we are unable to, we demand it of others and insist on this. And whereas all things are corrected through prayer, we often are distressed or become outraged and pass judgment on others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0 \u2018Wounded by Love\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5571\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/72c37e20611cbc4ac5e93972183df423-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/72c37e20611cbc4ac5e93972183df423-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/72c37e20611cbc4ac5e93972183df423-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/72c37e20611cbc4ac5e93972183df423.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf, for example, you see a woman immodestly dressed, don\u2019t have regard only for her outward appearance, but look more deeply into her soul. She may be a very good [&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-5570","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\/5570","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=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}