32 Quotes by Alexander Schmemann

The Eucharist is the sacrament of cosmic remembrance: it is indeed a restoration of love as the very life of the world.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Academic theology is false.

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.

Principles are what people have instead of God.

Every evil screams only one message: ‘I am good.’

We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.