quotes about Membership
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Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.
-- Andrew Greeley -
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
-- Archibald Alexander HodgeSource : Archibald Alexander Hodge (1958). “The Confession of Faith: A Handbook of Christian Doctrine Expounding the Westminster Confession”, Banner of Truth
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The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true,
-- Atifete Jahjaga -
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Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
-- Benjamin CardozoSource : Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.191, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
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Christianity means a lot more than church membership.
-- Billy Sunday -
Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.
-- David Cameron -
This club is for members only. But once you join, membership lasts for an eternity.
-- Ellen Schreiber -
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Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
-- Fred Allen -
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.
-- Gilda RadnerSource : "Psycho-Oncology". Book by Fred Goodwin (p. 2), 2000.
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The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood…We should be careful of them.
-- J. Reuben Clark -
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Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true.
-- Joel Henry HildebrandSource : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1963). “Is intelligence important?”
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If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.
-- John BinghamSource : John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
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The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.
-- John Doolittle -
Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society...
-- Marie Brennan -
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Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
-- Mark Dever -
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.
-- Neil Postman -
I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.
-- Pranab Mukherjee -
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What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.
-- Robert D. PutnamSource : Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
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Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.
-- Russell M. Nelson -
So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.
-- Thom S. RainerSource : Thom S. Rainer (2013). “I Am a Church Member: Discovering the Attitude that Makes the Difference”, p.39, B&H Publishing Group
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[Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.
-- Tim Buck -
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Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.
-- Warren Cuccurullo -
I believe that the community - in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures - is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms. (pg. 146, Health is Membership)
-- Wendell Berry -
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.
-- Ruth Davidson -
Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.
-- Mahathir MohamadSource : "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.
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