Helen Steiner Rice Quotes & Sayings

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. — Helen Steiner Rice

So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you. — Helen Steiner Rice

In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all. — Helen Steiner Rice

God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do. — Helen Steiner Rice

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow,
Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know.
Teach me sweet forbearance when things do not go right
So I remain unruffled when others grow uptight.
Teach me how to quiet my racing, rising heart
So I might hear the answer You are trying to impart.
Teach me to let go, dear God, and pray undisturbed until
My heart is filled with inner peace and I learn to know your will. — Helen Steiner Rice

Once I've met someone, the years cannot erase, the memory of a pleasant word or a friendly face. — Helen Steiner Rice

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love. — Helen Steiner Rice

ADVERSITY CAN DISTRESS US OR BLESS US The way we use adversity is strictly our own choice, For in God's Hands adversity can make the heart rejoice - For everything God sends to us, no matter in what form, Is sent with plan and purpose for by the fierceness of a storm The atmosphere is changed and cleared and the earth is washed and clean. — Helen Steiner Rice

Time is not measured by the years that you live
But by the deeds that you do and the joy that you give-
And each day as it comes brings a chance to each one
To love to the fullest, leaving nothing undone
That would brighten the life or lighten the load
Of some weary traveler lost on Life's Road-
So what does it matter how long we may live
If as long as we live we unselfishly give. — 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

In this troubled world, it's refreshing to find someone who still has the time to be kind. Someone who still has the faith to believe that the more you give, the more you receive. Someone who's ready by thought, word, or deed to reach out a hand, in the hour of need. — Helen Steiner Rice

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there ... — Helen Steiner Rice

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

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight. — Helen Steiner Rice

No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you. — Helen Steiner Rice

More than guided missiles,
all the world needs
guided men. — Helen Steiner Rice

A mother's love is like an island, In life's ocean vast and wide, A peaceful, quiet shelter, From the restless, rising tide. — Helen Steiner Rice

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant. — 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

Love is the answer, that everyone seeks ... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. — Helen Steiner Rice

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow. — Helen Steiner Rice

Love is like magic and it always will be. For love still remains life's sweet mystery! Love works in ways that are wondrous and strange and there's nothing in life that love cannot change! Love can transform the most commonplace into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace. Love is unselfish, understanding and kind, for it sees with its heart and not with its mind! Love is the answer that everyone seeks ... Love is the language, that every heart speaks. Love can't be bought, it is priceless and free, love, like pure magic, is life's sweet mystery! — 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

And when the home is filled with love you'll always find God spoken of — Helen Steiner Rice

Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got. — Helen Steiner Rice

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. — Helen Steiner Rice

After the clouds, the sunshine; after the winter, the spring; after the shower, the rainbow; for life is a changeable thing. After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace. — Helen Steiner Rice

It takes a Mother's Love to make a house a home, a place to be remembered, no matter where we roam. — Helen Steiner Rice

When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world falls apart,
Remember God's ready and waiting to share
The burden you find much to heavy to bear
So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD" lead your way
Into a brighter and less troubled day — Helen Steiner Rice

A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking — Helen Steiner Rice

This great God loves us still, He loved us since the world began and what's more, He always will. — Helen Steiner Rice

Precious and priceless, so lovable, too; The world's sweetest miracle, baby, is you. — Helen Steiner Rice

For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you. — Helen Steiner Rice

Today be happy with what you have - not discontent with what you don't have. — Helen Steiner Rice

The comfort and sweetness of peace. — Helen Steiner Rice

A mother's love is like a tower, Rising far above the crowd, And her smile is like the sunshine, Breaking through a threatening cloud. — Helen Steiner Rice

You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive! — 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 — Helen Steiner Rice

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. — Helen Steiner Rice

For a mother's love is fashioned, After God's enduring love, It is endless and unfailing, Like the love of Him above. — Helen Steiner Rice

May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought ... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you. — Helen Steiner Rice

Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions by scheming and skill For those who are greedy and warlike, Whose avarice for power cannot cease, Can never contribute in helping To bring this world nearer to peace For in seeking peace for all people There is only one place to begin And that is in each home and heart- For the fortress of peace is within! — Helen Steiner Rice

There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new. — Helen Steiner Rice