Theos Starter Pack Quotes

“The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologian to swim in without ever touching the bottom.”
― Nathan Finochio, Theos Starter Pack: Toward a Recovery of Essential Christianity

“And yet many of our churches treat the Scriptures as advice rather than as an authority.”
― Nathan Finochio, Theos Starter Pack: Toward a Recovery of Essential Christianity

“The word religion comes from the same Latin word as obligation. It means restraint. And that is why it is universally condemned by the modern world—because it is a restraint and a check upon the godlessness and lawlessness of our age.”
― Nathan Finochio, Theos Starter Pack: Toward a Recovery of Essential Christianity

“Most of all, perhaps, we need intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has any magic about it, but because we cannot study the future, and yet need something to set against the present, to remind us that the basic assumptions have been quite different in different periods and that much which seems certain to the uneducated is merely fashion. A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
― Nathan Finochio, Theos Starter Pack: Toward a Recovery of Essential Christianity