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title: "10 Church Member Quotes by 10 authors"
description: "Browse 10 Church Member quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Church Member sayings and thoughts."
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> [The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-s-rainer/the-concept-of-an-inactive-church-member-is-an-oxymoron-biblically-no/)

[Thom S. Rainer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-s-rainer/)

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> [Not everyone who goes to church is a member of the church, some are just numbers in the church..](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/not-everyone-who-goes-to-church-is-a-member-of-the-church-some-are/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Let everything that you do bring credit and honor to the Church, of which you are a member, and the Lord will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-b-hinckley/let-everything-that-you-do-bring-credit-and-honor-to-the-church-of/)

[Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-b-hinckley/)

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> [“No one can become a new man except by entering the Church, and becoming a member of the body of Christ. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/no-one-can-become-a-new-man-except-by-entering-the-church-and/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [A person with homosexual inclinations, where they're kept under control, or, if yielded to are appropriately repented of, is eligible to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dallin-h-oaks/a-person-with-homosexual-inclinations-where-they-re-kept-under/)

[Dallin H. Oaks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dallin-h-oaks/)

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> [Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-spock/like-my-parents-i-have-never-been-a-regular-church-member-or/)

[Benjamin Spock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-spock/)

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> [A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/a-prayerless-church-member-is-a-hindrance-he-is-in-the-body-like-a/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [“I can’t understand how Herbert Ryan would run around the country throwing people in the creek and trying to keep them from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-jane-salyers/i-can-t-understand-how-herbert-ryan-would-run-around-the-country/)

[Mary Jane Salyers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-jane-salyers/)

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> [“You know, it’s awfully hard to get a Christian scared. It’s hard to get him panicked if he really believes in God.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-w-tozer/you-know-it-s-awfully-hard-to-get-a-christian-scared-it-s-hard-to-get/)

[A.W. Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-w-tozer/)

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> [I am interested in Scripture and theology. This is an interest that I can assume I would share with a pastor, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-am-interested-in-scripture-and-theology-this-is-an-interest-that-i/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

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