#ss

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#cold iron #diffuse #efforts #first #frantic

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do. ↗

— Teena Marie

#enough #god #i #i do #imagination

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life. ↗

— Teena Marie

#been #blessing #daughter #day #different

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#secured #slavish #submission

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. ↗

— Teena Marie

#artist #be the first #classic #control #creative

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time. ↗

— Teena Marie

#anything #being #body #done #gift

You never know where a blessing can come from. ↗

— Teena Marie

#come #know #never #where #you

The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#dangerous #harmless #reason #totally

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#diplomacy #element #force #inevitable #means

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass. ↗