{"id":6586,"date":"2019-05-10T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6586"},"modified":"2019-05-02T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T21:17:42","slug":"elder-st-paisios-on-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6586","title":{"rendered":"Elder St Paisios on Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Keep in mind that we have nothing of our own. God has given us everything; whatever we have is God\u2019s. Only the sins are ours. If we do not humble ourselves, spiritual laws will be in constant effect for us, until our ego caves in. May God grant that this happens before death takes us.\u00a0 If someone is not in tune with himself, he won\u2019t be able to understand anything, and nothing will help him or benefit him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Family Life\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6587\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The_Monastery_of_Simopetra_on_Mount_Athos-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The_Monastery_of_Simopetra_on_Mount_Athos-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/The_Monastery_of_Simopetra_on_Mount_Athos.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Keep in mind that we have nothing of our own. God has given us everything; whatever we have is God\u2019s. Only the sins are ours. If we do not humble [&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-6586","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\/6586","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=6586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6588,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6586\/revisions\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}