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Alexander Schmemann Quotes

1921–1983 Estonia

Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (13 September 1921 – 13 December 1983), was an influential Orthodox priest, theologian, and author.

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"The real human tragedy is living a noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world."

“The sacrament of matrimony is wider than family. It is the sacrament of divine love, as the all-embracing mystery of being itself, and it is for this reason that it concerns the whole Church, and – through the Church – the whole world."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexander Schmemann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.