What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
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RICK YANCEY If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second? RICK YANCEY Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. PHILIP TREACY I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... PHILIP GREEN I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. PHILIP GREEN You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... PHILIP GREEN I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I... PHILIP GREEN You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. PHILIP GREEN They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex... PHILIP GREEN Either I will find a way, or I will make one. PHILIP SIDNEY I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. PHILIP TREACY Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. PHILIP MASSINGER My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... PHILIP ROTH Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion PHILIP WYLIE All this, and Heaven too! PHILIP HENRY Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ... PHILIP ZIMBARDO It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... PHILIP SIDNEY