{"id":3528,"date":"2023-05-08T12:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2023-05-18T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:40:02","slug":"both-virtues-and-vices-start-from-slight-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/both-virtues-and-vices-start-from-slight-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Both Virtues and Vices Start from Slight Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Virtues_Vices_Start_Small_01_900x520.jpg\" alt=\"Both Virtues and Vices Start from Slight Things\" width=\"900\" height=\"520\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Virtues_Vices_Start_Small_01_900x520.jpg 900w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Virtues_Vices_Start_Small_01_900x520-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Virtues_Vices_Start_Small_01_900x520-768x444.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>&#8220;When someone begins to say, &#8216;What does it matter if I say that word, eat that little morsel, feast my eyes on that?&#8217; he falls into bad habits and runs the risk of gradually falling into insensibility. For both virtues and vices start from slight things and lead to greater ones, either good or bad.&#8221;  ~ Archbishop Averky (Taushev)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When someone begins to say, &#8216;What does it matter if I say that word, eat that little morsel, feast my eyes on that?&#8217; he falls into bad habits and runs the risk of gradually falling into insensibility. For both virtues and vices start from slight things and lead to greater ones, either good or bad.&#8221; &#8230; <a title=\"Both Virtues and Vices Start from Slight Things\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/both-virtues-and-vices-start-from-slight-things\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Both Virtues and Vices Start from Slight Things\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,26,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral-issues","category-orthodox-christianity","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}