Quotes from Rebecca Manley Pippert

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

The problem stems from our great difficulty in believing that God is glorified in our utter humanity rather than in our spiritually programmed responses.

what do you do with a man who is supposed to be the holiest man who has ever lived and yet goes around talking with prostitutes and hugging lepers? What do you do with a man who not only mingles with the most unsavory people but actually seems to enjoy them? The religious accused him of being a drunkard, a glutton and having tacky taste in friends. It is a profound irony that the Son of God visited this planet and one of the chief complaints against him was that he was not religious enough.

The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life.