“It is not a gathering of 'escapees' from the world, bitterly enjoying their escape, feeding their hate for the world. Listen to their psalms and hymns; contemplate the transparent beauty of their icons, their movements, of the entire *celebration. It… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about all of creation, then there is no God, then this whole story about creation, about joy, and about the light of life is…” quote by Alexander Schmemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4e8/alexander-schmemann-18392_christian_to-be-more-precise-death-is-contrary-to_126170.jpg)
![“The additional problem with all these proofs [of the immortality of the soul] is that in their attempt to affirm the existence of another world, they in fact undermine the reality and the value of this visible world. It is, of course, the perennial argument: things are awful here, therefore let us…” quote by Alexander Schmemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85b/alexander-schmemann-18392_another-world_the-additional-problem-with-all-these-pr_278162.jpg)
