When you ask God for a gift, ...

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
 Helen Steiner Rice

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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
 Randy Alcorn
Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.
All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

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A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away
 Helen Steiner Rice
A mother's love is something that no one can explain — It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain. It is endless and unselfish and enduring, come what may, For nothing can destroy it or take that love away. It is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, And it never fails or falters even though the heart is breaking.
 Helen Steiner Rice
A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.
 Helen Steiner Rice
It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.
 Helen Steiner Rice
A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.
 Helen Steiner Rice