Membership Quotes

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.

Look to the temple of the Lord as the great symbol of your membership.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.

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.

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.

Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

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)

As a Welshman that can't sing, I never feel more proud to be Welsh than when I hear the Treorchy Male Choir - the Master Choir of them all. If I could sing I would apply for membership myself.

I have another explanation [of Brexit]: In its 43 years of EU membership, Britain has never been able to decide whether it wants to fully or only partially belong to the EU.

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.

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.

You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The Prüm Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a good example of international cooperation.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.

Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall.

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

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.

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.