" When I die you can write my immemorian in one brief paragraph. You can say that my vision consisted in 2 No's 1 Yes and the Kingdom of God (eschatology). The first No is to secularism in all it's forms. To any attempt to define man and the world without reference to God. The second No is to religion. By this I mean religion as one part of life. One sacred compartment as opposed to all the rest considered as profane and worldly. Christ did not come to bring religion. Christianity is not religion. Christ brought the Kingdom of God. The righteousness the peace the joy in the Holy Spirit. This is my yes. Yes to Christ and the Church. Yes to Christ's Church understood not as an institution or an organization or an agency of any sort. However helpful and laudable it's purposes. But Yes to the church as the sacramental presence in this world of the eternal life of the world to come. Yes to the whole of God's creation. To all of Life. As found and fulfilled in it's God given substance in Christ and in the Church."
- Father Alexander Schmemann
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