“On one side it seems there is faith in a Creator-God - and at the same time, the rejection of his creation;… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“To be more precise... death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The additional problem with all these proofs [of the immortality of the soul] is that in their attempt to affirm the existence… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“This world rejected Christ, refused to see in Him its own life and fulfillment. And since it has no other life but… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Thus the whole death is not the biological phenomenon of death but the spiritual reality whose "sting... is sin" (1 Cor. 15:56)… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“I refer to the Gospel account in which Christ weeps at the grave of his friend Lazarus. We need to pause and… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding,… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“A marriage which does not constantly crucify its own selfishness and self-sufficiency, which does not ‘die to itself’ that it may point… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“In order to console himself, man created a dream of another world where there is no death, and for that dream he… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it 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 Image
“Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There” — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion. — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
