{"id":7648,"date":"2019-12-28T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2019-12-21T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T12:55:28","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-december-28-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=7648","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for December 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery attack against us isn\u2019t solely wicked; it\u2019s also a blessing. It helps us to become better, to acquire humility. A wicked tongue, a poisonous tongue is a \u2018messenger from Satan\u2019 as Saint Paul says (<em>2 Cor. <\/em>12, 7), sent by God to \u2018give us a slap\u2019, to stop us becoming conceited. To help us rein in our vanity, our high opinion of ourself, our self-satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(St Tikhon of Zadonsk, collected quotes)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7649\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/298645.b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/298645.b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/298645.b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/298645.b-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/298645.b.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery attack against us isn\u2019t solely wicked; it\u2019s also a blessing. It helps us to become better, to acquire humility. A wicked tongue, a poisonous tongue is a \u2018messenger from [&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-7648","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\/7648","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=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7650,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions\/7650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}