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 dea…

- Alexander Schmemann

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still s…

- Alexander Schmemann

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas bo…

- Alexander Schmemann

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

- Alexander Schmemann

The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.

- Alexander Schmemann

Academic theology is false.

- Alexander Schmemann

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, rel…

- Alexander Schmemann

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

- Alexander Schmemann

How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simpl…

- Alexander Schmemann