Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is — Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is — Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is — Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is — Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is — Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
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Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.

— Rebecca Manley Pippert, Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World
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