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Alexander Schmemann Quotes: 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.
         

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



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

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



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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.



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

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



Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.

Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church.



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Academic theology is false.



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



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Principles are what people have instead of God.





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