{"id":8840,"date":"2020-09-18T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2020-09-06T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T00:45:13","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-september-18-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=8840","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for September 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Divine Light illumines the pure heart and the pure intellect, because these are susceptible to receiving light; whereas impure hearts and intellects, not being susceptible to receiving illumination, have an aversion to the light of knowledge, the light of truth; they like darkness&#8230; God loves those who have a pure heart, listens to their prayers, grants them their requests that lead to salvation, reveals Himself to them and teaches the mysteries of the Divine nature.\u201d<br \/>\n(St Nektarios of Aegina, collected quotes by Fr Serfes)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8841\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20090701_Nijdam_Hoornse_Plas_Hoornse_Meer_Groningen_NL-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20090701_Nijdam_Hoornse_Plas_Hoornse_Meer_Groningen_NL-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20090701_Nijdam_Hoornse_Plas_Hoornse_Meer_Groningen_NL-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20090701_Nijdam_Hoornse_Plas_Hoornse_Meer_Groningen_NL-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20090701_Nijdam_Hoornse_Plas_Hoornse_Meer_Groningen_NL.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Divine Light illumines the pure heart and the pure intellect, because these are susceptible to receiving light; whereas impure hearts and intellects, not being susceptible to receiving illumination, have [&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-8840","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\/8840","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=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8842,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions\/8842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}