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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.


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GORDON RAMSAY I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
GORDON RAMSAY Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You'...
GORDON RAMSAY My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we h...
GALE GORDON I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
GALE GORDON My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
GALE GORDON The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy ...
GALE GORDON The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these do...
GORDON PARKS There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is societ...
GEORGE GORDON Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramov...
GORDON TAYLOR The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, gu...
PATRICK GORDON Some read biographies of famous Christians to try to short-cut themselves into a deeper walk with th...
GREG GORDON To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
SUZANNE GORDON If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power a...
CHARLES GORDON A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society,...
GEORGE GORDON To be somebody you must last.
RUTH GORDON To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t...
RUTH GORDON Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing...
GORDON GRAHAM Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A s...
GORDON SUMNER On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase ...
GEORGE GORDON The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th...
RUTH GORDON Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fail...
ARTHUR GORDON There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that ...
GORDON GRAHAM At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The pr...
ARTHUR GORDON Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind fait...
GORDON SUMNER Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I re...
GORDON PARKS A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hard...
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