{"id":8681,"date":"2020-08-17T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8681"},"modified":"2020-08-09T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T13:16:07","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-august-17-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8681","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-contents=\"true\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5m30t\" data-offset-key=\"28upe-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"28upe-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"28upe-0-0\">\u201cA habit of absentminded, inattentive and careless prayer breeds a coldness towards God, dejection, a weakening of the faith and a darkening of the mind, and these in their turn lead to spiritual numbness. For prayer to be fruitful it must be fervent, offered up with an awareness of the need for what we are asking (Col. 4:2) and it must be untiring and relentless, pursuing its purpose with the firm resolve of the widow in Our Lord&#8217;s parable who seeks protection from her adversary (Luke 18:2-8).\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5m30t\" data-offset-key=\"c1kdg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"c1kdg-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"c1kdg-0-0\">(\u2018These Truths We Hold Catechism)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"5m30t\" data-offset-key=\"d967h-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d967h-0-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8682\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcccg-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcccg-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcccg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcccg-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/gcccg.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA habit of absentminded, inattentive and careless prayer breeds a coldness towards God, dejection, a weakening of the faith and a darkening of the mind, and these in their turn [&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-8681","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\/8681","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=8681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8683,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8681\/revisions\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}