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Top 20 Alexander Schmemann Quotes (2025 Update)

Alexander Schmemann Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Alexander Schmemann

Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Academic theology is false.”

2. “Academic theology is false.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.”

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

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “As we make the first step into the “bright sadness” of Lent, we see – far, far away – the destination. It is the joy of Easter, it is the entrance into the glory of the Kingdom. And it is this vision, the foretaste of Easter, that makes Lent’s sadness bright and our lenten effort a “spiritual spring.” The night may be dark and long, but all along the way a mysterious and radiant dawn seems to shine on the horizon.”

4. “As we make the first step into the “bright sadness” of Lent, we see – far, far away – the destination. It is the joy of Easter, it is the entrance into the glory of the Kingdom. And it is this vision, the foretaste of Easter, that makes Lent’s sadness bright and our lenten effort a “spiritual spring.” The night may be dark and long, but all along the way a mysterious and radiant dawn seems to shine on the horizon.”

— Alexander Schmemann

Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Principles are what people have instead of God.”

5. “Principles are what people have instead of God.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Every evil screams only one message: ‘I am good.’”

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

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There.”

7. “Christian mission is not to preach Christ, but to be Christians in life. There.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world.”

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

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Alexander Schmemann

Alexander Schmemann Quote: “The natural dependence of man upon the world was intended to be transformed constantly into communion with God in whom is all life.”

10. “The natural dependence of man upon the world was intended to be transformed constantly into communion with God in whom is all life.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “We are approaching again the Great Lent – the time of repentance, the time of our reconciliation with God. Repentance is the beginning and also the condition of a truly Christian life.”

12. “We are approaching again the Great Lent – the time of repentance, the time of our reconciliation with God. Repentance is the beginning and also the condition of a truly Christian life.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “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 both truth and goodness are always transcendent.”

13. “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 both truth and goodness are always transcendent.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Simone W eil has said that though a person may run as fast as he can away from Christ, if it is toward what he considers true, he runs in fact straight into the arms of Christ. Much.”

14. “Simone W eil has said that though a person may run as fast as he can away from Christ, if it is toward what he considers true, he runs in fact straight into the arms of Christ. Much.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.”

15. “In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.”

16. “Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “It is indeed one of th e grave errors of religious anti-secularism that it does not see that secularism is made up of verites chretiennes devenues folies, of Christian truths that “went mad,” and that in simply rejecting secularism, it in fact rejects with it certain fundamentally Christian aspirations and hopes.”

17. “It is indeed one of th e grave errors of religious anti-secularism that it does not see that secularism is made up of verites chretiennes devenues folies, of Christian truths that “went mad,” and that in simply rejecting secularism, it in fact rejects with it certain fundamentally Christian aspirations and hopes.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in space. The darkness of sin is clarified, and its burden shouldered. Death is robbed of its finality, trampled down by Christ’s death. In a world where everything that seems to be present is immediately past, everything in Christ is able to participate in the eternal present of God.”

18. “In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in space. The darkness of sin is clarified, and its burden shouldered. Death is robbed of its finality, trampled down by Christ’s death. In a world where everything that seems to be present is immediately past, everything in Christ is able to participate in the eternal present of God.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “The Church, if it is to be the Church, must be the revelation of that divine Love which God “poured out into our hearts.” Without this love nothing is “valid” in the Church because nothing is possible. The content of Christ’s Eucharist is Love, and only through love can we enter into it and be made its partakers.”

19. “The Church, if it is to be the Church, must be the revelation of that divine Love which God “poured out into our hearts.” Without this love nothing is “valid” in the Church because nothing is possible. The content of Christ’s Eucharist is Love, and only through love can we enter into it and be made its partakers.”

— Alexander Schmemann

Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Whether we “spiritualize” our life or “secularize” our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are told God gave his only begotten Son, remains hopelessly beyond our religious grasp.”

20. “Whether we “spiritualize” our life or “secularize” our religion, whether we invite men to a spiritual banquet or simply join them at the secular one, the real life of the world, for which we are told God gave his only begotten Son, remains hopelessly beyond our religious grasp.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion.”

21. “Religion is needed where there is a wall of separation between God and man. But Christ who is both God and man has broken down the wall between man and God. He has inaugurated a new life, not a new religion.”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “How shall I begin to deplore the deeds of my miserable life? What beginning shall I make, O Christ, to this lament? But since Thou art compassionate, grant me remission of my trespasses.” “Like as the potter gives life to his clay, Thou hast bestowed upon me Flesh and bones, breath and life; Today, O my Creator, my Redeemer and My Judge, Receive me a penitent... ” “I have lost my first made beauty and dignity, And now I lie naked and covered with shame...”

22. “How shall I begin to deplore the deeds of my miserable life? What beginning shall I make, O Christ, to this lament? But since Thou art compassionate, grant me remission of my trespasses.” “Like as the potter gives life to his clay, Thou hast bestowed upon me Flesh and bones, breath and life; Today, O my Creator, my Redeemer and My Judge, Receive me a penitent... ” “I have lost my first made beauty and dignity, And now I lie naked and covered with shame...”

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Alexander Schmemann Quote: “It is significant that whereas in the West Mary is primarily the Virgin, a being almost totally different from us in her absolute and celestial purity and freedom from all carnal pollution, in the East she is always referred to and glorified as Theotokos, the Mother of God, and virtually all icons depict her with the Child in her arms.”

23. “It is significant that whereas in the West Mary is primarily the Virgin, a being almost totally different from us in her absolute and celestial purity and freedom from all carnal pollution, in the East she is always referred to and glorified as Theotokos, the Mother of God, and virtually all icons depict her with the Child in her arms.”

— Alexander Schmemann

Alexander Schmemann Quote: “In the Bible the food that man eats, the world of which he must partake in order to live, is given to him by God, and it is given as communion with God.”

24. “In the Bible the food that man eats, the world of which he must partake in order to live, is given to him by God, and it is given as communion with God.”

— Alexander Schmemann

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