Nate Larkin > Quotes

“That’s the biggest problem with personas. A false self can never rest. It looks like a real person, but a persona is actually just a hologram, a projected image, and it requires constant energy to keep that image up. A persona is afraid to go to sleep, because to sleep is to die.”
― Nate Larkin, Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood

“What keeps most of us from God is not the sin we know we have, but the righteousness we think we have.”
― Nate Larkin

“God said. “Prepare your son to build the temple. Give him everything he will need to do it. Devote your remaining days to being a godly father, and you will leave legacy enough.”
― Nate Larkin, Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood

“Superstition and religion tell me that God responds to me. God is powerful, to be sure, but I am the real center of the universe, because God’s actions are predicated upon mine. Religion and superstition say that I can make God dance by being good, and that by being bad I can force him from the floor.”
― Nate Larkin, Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood

“hesitant to delegate responsibility, he ordained dozens of them to the ministry and sent them out to plant and pastor churches. Within ten years he was commanding a formidable army of active church workers, and some people were jokingly referring to him as “the Pope of the North Country.”
― Nate Larkin, Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood

“Let’s face it: the reason many guys have stopped telling the truth in church is because most churches actively discourage truthfulness. Even in Christian men’s groups, the cost of candor is usually painfully high, the punitive response to it swift and decisive.”
― Nate Larkin, Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood