“In the Orthodox ecclesial experience and tradition a sacrament is understood primarily as a revelation of the genuine nature of creation, of the world, which, however much it has fallen as "this world," will remain God's world, awaiting salvation, redemption,… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the body of Christ. This is… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“On one side it seems there is faith in a Creator-God - and at the same time, the rejection of his creation; and on… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There” — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“In the Orthodox ecclesial experience and tradition a sacrament is understood primarily as a revelation of the genuine nature of creation, of the world,… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion. — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“The additional problem with all these proofs [of the immortality of the soul] is that in their attempt to affirm the existence of another… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“To live in the world as if there were no God ! "-but hon esty to the Gospel, to the whole Christian tradition, to… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“This world rejected Christ, refused to see in Him its own life and fulfillment. And since it has no other life but Christ, by… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth,… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56) - the… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
“Our modern theology, which in many ways has ceased to be personal, i.e. centered on the Christian experience of "person," nevertheless - and maybe… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share
