{"id":850,"date":"2015-01-13T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=850"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:51:24","slug":"sinful-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Sinful Thoughts&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The demons start their warfare in the imagination; they cultivate it with thoughts; they defile the nous; they take it down into the heart; and they make both the soul and body filthy. What decides a person&#8217;s entire progress or failure is whether he gives in to or resists the attacks of the imagination. If he makes the mistake of beginning a dialogue with the simple assault and accepting the devil&#8217;s garbage by his own consent what will follow are falls of the soul, mind, heart and body. As a result the passion will take him captive.&#8221;<br \/>\nElder Joseph<br \/>\n~ My Elder Joseph the Hesychast<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/173828_t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-851\" src=\"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/173828_t.jpg\" alt=\"173828_t\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The demons start their warfare in the imagination; they cultivate it with thoughts; they defile the nous; they take it down into the heart; and they make both the soul and body filthy. What decides a person&#8217;s entire progress or failure is whether he gives in to or resists the attacks of the imagination. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jesusprayer.us\/elders\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}