“On one side it seems there is faith in a Creator-God - and at the same time, the rejection of his creation;… — Alexander Schmemann Death Copy Share Image
“Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There” — Alexander Schmemann Christianity 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… — Alexander Schmemann Bread and wine 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 Christian Copy Share Image
In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion. — Alexander Schmemann Christianity 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 Another world Copy Share Image
“To live in the world as if there were no God ! "-but hon esty to the Gospel, to the whole Christian… — Alexander Schmemann Christian 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 Death 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… — Alexander Schmemann Behinds 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… — Alexander Schmemann Evil 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… — Alexander Schmemann Body of christ 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… — Alexander Schmemann Fallen 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 Baptism 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 -… — Alexander Schmemann Identity Copy Share Image
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something… — Alexander Schmemann Bodily functions Copy Share Image
“It is not a gathering of 'escapees' from the world, bitterly enjoying their escape, feeding their hate for the world. Listen to… — Alexander Schmemann Baptism 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world. — Alexander Schmemann Fall 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 Death Copy Share Image
“The "modern man" has "come of age" as a deadly serious adult, conscious of his sufferings and alienations but not of joy,… — Alexander Schmemann Love 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 Bodies Copy Share Image
