{"id":6598,"date":"2019-05-19T12:16:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2019-05-04T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T01:18:19","slug":"elder-joseph-the-hesychast-on-our-dependence-on-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=6598","title":{"rendered":"Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Our Dependence on God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy child, man is unable to do anything on his own. He neither had, nor has, nor will ever have the power to do something good, unless God overshadows him from above. Every good thought, every good movement of the intellect is due to the operation of God\u2019s grace. If you accomplished a task without your body\u2019s participation, it is your own. However, if you did it with your body, it is God\u2019s, since your body is a creation of God. If you thought of something without your mind, it is yours. However, if you thought of it with your mind, it is God\u2019s, since your mind is a creation of God. Therefore, man has nothing of his own\u2014everything begins from God and ends in God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u2018Monastic Wisdom\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-4-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-4-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-4-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-4-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/FIELD-HALKIDIKI-ATHOS-3495-4.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy child, man is unable to do anything on his own. He neither had, nor has, nor will ever have the power to do something good, unless God overshadows him [&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-6598","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\/6598","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=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}