9+ Alexander Schmemann Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Alexander Schmemann quotes and sayings.

Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.' — 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 both truth and goodness are always transcendent. — 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, religion that is the justification for these idols. — Alexander Schmemann

Academic theology is false. — 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 simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth. — Alexander Schmemann

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

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

Principles are what people have instead of God. — Alexander Schmemann

In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion. — Alexander Schmemann