Quotes About Membership

A Tennessee Squire is an elite group of people.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

The Muslim Brotherhood membership includes designated terrorist organizations like Hamas.

Defining a mono-racial church as one that has more than 80 percent of its membership consisting of a single racial group, nearly nine in ten (86 percent) congregations, which account for 80 percent of churchgoers, remain essentially mono-racial.46

As he put it in 1975, Labour was 'neither in favour of being in Europe on principle, or being out of the Common Market on principle'.130 Unable to commit either to membership or to withdrawal, Labour had contained its contradictions within what might be termed 'Schrödinger's Cabinet': a body that was simultaneously pro-Market and anti-Market, until such time as the wave function of Wilsonian ambiguity was collapsed.

The key to retention for all of these programs is what happens AFTER your new member joins.

I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.

The practice of prayer and fasting was paramount to club membership. This one ingredient may have been the critical characteristic that caused the Wesleys, along with Whitefield and others, to emerge as such powerful forces for Christ.

Each of us comes from people who were once indigenous. We can reclaim our membership in the cultures of gratitude that formed our old relationships with the living earth.

The Clique.... the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

The Grand Ole Opry asked me to be a member on September 25, 1962. I was thirty years old. I can't tell you how proud that made me. It was one of the best moments of my life.

The way one becomes a member of this universal body is to simply place faith in Christ (Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8-9).

A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society, whether it chooses destruction or not.

any store or restaurant or office that he went into. Nor was she married to any of the men he knew in the Elks or the Oddfellows or the Lions Club or the Legion. A

What makes a circle sacred is that those who show up for it are the ones who belong in it.

To keep it simple you run your gym like you run your house. Keep it clean and in good running order. No jerks allowed, members pay on time and if they give you any crap, throw them out. There's peace where there's order.

It was part of their mission as a secret society--as it is part of the mission of most secret societies, actually--to not be entirely secret.

Most secret societies—at least those you can read about in books or on the Internet—are collegiate. Or adult... They are like fraternities, only they don't have houses or public identities. In colleges, their members are usually local, not national, but the adult ones tend to be more serious and on a larger scale. We don't actually know what they do. Because they're secret.

If we're not careful, our individualistic assumptions about church can lead us to think of the church as something like a health club. We're members because we believe in the mission statement and want to be a part of the action. As long as the church provides the services I want, I'll stick around. But when I no longer approve of the vision, or am no longer "being fed," I'm out the door.

during the nineteenth century, one home missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church reported to the general conference in 1844 "that during four years he had covered 300 miles in his itinerant preaching, establishing 47 churches with a total membership of 2,000. He had seven other itinerant preachers working with him, and 27 local preachers had organized 50 Sunday schools with 200 teachers and 2,000 students.

There are ten church members by inheritance for every one by conviction.

If Freemasons won't be completely open about their membership, should we not say that in all cases membership is incompatible with public service? Asking public servants to either confirm they are not a member of a masonic organisation or to be open when they are won't fully excise the backroom deals or the stench of privilege.

I see us very much at the heart of Europe. We are founding members of the single market; we are founding members of the euro.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.