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

• I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Heart
  • Hate
  • Pet

• 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

• Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick's.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Book
  • High
  • Risk

• ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Heaven
  • Tears

• I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh. "There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Today
  • Tea
  • Honey

• The daughter of an ordained minister, I had been forced to go to church since I was a toddler. I hated church and resented being forced to recite the Apostle's Creed, mumbling, 'I believe... ' when I didn't.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Daughter

• Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Taken
  • Violence

• 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