Ethan Treptow

“To look to Christ to meet our perceived psychological needs is to Christianize our lusts. We are asking God to give us what we want so we can feel better about ourselves or so we can have more happiness in our lives.”
― Edward T. Welch, When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Do you think that criticism is always a bad thing? If you find it difficult to take criticism, it’s because you haven’t believed what the cross says about you. The cross is the most blatant statement of criticism ever displayed. It says that you deserve to die. You deserve to be stripped naked and humiliated and then to receive the righteous wrath of a just God for all eternity. That’s what we all deserve. But we have been given grace, forgiveness, and relationship with him. You would need to defend yourself from criticism only if you didn’t have a Savior who loved sinners.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Counsel from the Cross: Connecting Broken People to the Love of Christ

“Path after path will be relentlessly explored to the very point at which it comes to nothing. In the end, only one way will be left.”
― Derek Kidner, The Message of Ecclesiastes