{"id":14663,"date":"2016-08-18T01:12:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/optimismand-pessimism\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T01:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T06:12:26","slug":"optimismand-pessimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/optimismand-pessimism\/","title":{"rendered":"OPTIMISM\nAND PESSIMISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The cross-carrying Christian\u2026 is both a confirmed pessimist and an optimist the like of which is to be found nowhere else on earth.1<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Strange as it may be, the holiest souls who have ever lived have earned the reputation for being pessimistic.2<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>No, the unknown saints are not pessimists, nor are they misanthropes or joy-killers. They are by virtue of their godly faith the world\u2019s only true optimists.3<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:center;line-height:normal'><b><i>P<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cross-carrying Christian\u2026 is both a confirmed pessimist and an optimist the like of which is to be found nowhere else on earth.1 \u2014\u2014 Strange as it may be, the holiest souls who have ever lived have earned the reputation for being pessimistic.2 \u2014\u2014 No, the unknown saints are not pessimists, nor are they misanthropes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/optimismand-pessimism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OPTIMISM<br \/>\nAND PESSIMISM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-14663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}