{"id":5660,"date":"2018-11-01T11:38:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T15:38:48","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-november-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=5660","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for November 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026these same virtues [ascetical practices like fasting, prostrations, etc.]\u00a0 may do more harm than their open omission to those who take them as the sole basis of their life and their hope&#8230;and when they pay attention only to the external practice of those virtues, and leave their heart to be moved by their own volitions and the volitions of the devil&#8230; Thinking of their external and pious works and deeming them good, they imagine that they have already reached perfection and, puffing themselves up, begin to judge others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5661\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/01269-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/01269-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/01269.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026these same virtues [ascetical practices like fasting, prostrations, etc.]\u00a0 may do more harm than their open omission to those who take them as the sole basis of their life 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-5660","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\/5660","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=5660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5660\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}