Alexander Schmemann Quotes

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

Alexander Schmemann

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• We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • May
  • Mother
  • Earth

• Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

  

  Edie Brickell
  • World
  • She
  • Food

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Sick
  • Connections
  • Electricity

• The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Health
  • Countries
  • Outcomes

• When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Day

• Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Real
  • Film
  • Acting

• To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Business
  • Best
  • Boxing

• My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • College
  • Teaching
  • Aim

• The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Dance
  • Enemy

• We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Simple
  • Embrace
  • Detail

• The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Work

• As anyone who has started a company knows, it's pretty common not to see any income for months.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Pretty

• You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Important
  • Why
  • Question

• I am particularly interested in primary education because the state of affairs in primary education in this country is a cause for concern.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Country
  • Education

• Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

  

  Arthur Erickson
  • Art
  • Energy

• There's no question that sources sometimes have interests aside from the truth when they talk to reporters. That's why reporters have to very aggressively report against their own theses and against their initial information.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Question

• Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Trying
  • Church
  • Jesus

• I like to go to church. Religion is an important part in my life. It has helped me in bad moments.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Life
  • Important
  • Bad

• A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fear
  • Never
  • Act

• I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Live
  • History
  • Band

• Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

  

  Daniel Mainwaring
  • People
  • World

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

  

  Alexander Schmemann
  • Church
  • Act
  • Thanksgiving