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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56303]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689   We have all been inoculated with Christianity, and are never likely to take it seriously now! You put some of the virus of some dreadful illness into a man's arm, and there is a little itchiness, some scratchiness, a slight discomfort--disagreeable, no doubt, but not the fever of the real disease, the turning and the tossing, and the ebbing strength. And we have all been inoculated with Christianity, more or less. We are on Christ's side, we wish him well, we hope that He will win, and we are even prepared to do something for Him, provided, of course, that He is reasonable, and does not make too much of an upset among our cozy comforts and our customary ways. But there is not the passion of zeal, and the burning enthusiasm, and the eagerness of self-sacrifice, of the real faith that changes character and wins the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45490]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' th' alehouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of any man's character is how he takes praise]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since your legs, Phoebus, resemble the horns of the moon, you might bathe your feet in a cornucopia.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7592]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say, not lightly but very literally, that the truth has made us free. They say that it makes us so free that it cannot be the truth. To them it is like believing in fairyland to believe in such freedom as we enjoy. It is like believing in men with wings to entertain the fancy of men with wills. It is like accepting a fable about a squirrel in conversation with a mountain to believe in a man who is free to ask or a God who is free to answer. This is a manly and a rational negation, for which I for one shall always show respect. But I decline to show any respect for those who first of all clip the bird and cage the squirrel, rivet the chains and refuse the freedom, close all the doors of the cosmic prison on us with a clang of eternal iron, tell us that our emancipation is a dream and our dungeon a necessity; and then calmly turn round and tell us they have a freer thought and a more liberal theology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How goes the enemy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27656]]></link><description><![CDATA[How goes the enemy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luke is an incredibly talented player who can start on the right or center of midfield. I had the pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Luke is an incredibly talented player who can start on the right or center of midfield. I had the pleasure of helping coach him at Real Salt Lake, and he is one of the fastest players I have ever seen come out of college.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was co-ed. They didn't have enough kids otherwise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33071]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was co-ed. They didn't have enough kids otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35972]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on the field, and I'd say Archie is that kind of person,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29083]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early bird gets the worm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9421]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be democratic and transparent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37937]]></link><description><![CDATA[She'll be in every episode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42682]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not playing hard enough, we're not playing mean enough, and we're not finishing plays. We're just way too nice. We would have won the Mister Friendly contest out there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Lyons skin is never cheape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Lyons skin is never cheape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2019]]></link><description><![CDATA[One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3321]]></link><description><![CDATA[The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22936]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Olivia:) What's a drunken man like, fool? (Clown:) Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the seconds mads him, and a third drowns him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reality is, it's customary for athletic teams that are in these kinds of big games to provide the Governor's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reality is, it's customary for athletic teams that are in these kinds of big games to provide the Governor's Office with access to tickets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to a long life is to stay busy, get plenty of exercise and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1650]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of him, but he was cruising for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing where people are, where they want to ride the bus and where they want to get off allows us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing where people are, where they want to ride the bus and where they want to get off allows us to put the busses out exactly where people want to go and that allows us to keep the fares at the same level that they've been for 10 years despite what we've seen fuel prices and other costs do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382]]></link><description><![CDATA[[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44492]]></link><description><![CDATA[If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25919]]></link><description><![CDATA[With love and patience, nothing is impossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11108]]></link><description><![CDATA[FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy to have done two triple Axels, I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple Axels. I'd give myself 95 out of 100 for today's skate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17066]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, Staretz, 1833 A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME (This abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans is continued from yesterday)  Now I come to a difficulty. I have heard people say, "If human sin gives play to God's graciousness, let us go on sinning to give Him a better chance. Why not do evil that good may come?" (Rom. 3:8) What nonsense! To be saved through Christ is to be a dead man so far as sin is concerned. Think of the symbolism of Baptism. You go down into the water: that is like being buried with Christ. You come up out of the water: that is like rising with Christ from the tomb. It means, therefore, a new life, a life which comes by union with the living Christ. You will admit that, once a man is dead, there is no more claim against him for any wrong he may have committed. He is like a slave set free from all claims on the part of his late master. Think, then, of yourselves as dead. When you remember the death of Christ, think that you--i.e., your old bad selves--were crucified with Him. And when you remember His resurrection, think of yourselves as living with Him, a new life. And above all, bear in mind that Christ, once risen, does not die again: and so you, living the new life in Him, need not die again. I mean, the sin that once dominated you need not any longer control you; do not let it! You are freed slaves; do not sell yourselves into slavery again. Or, if you like to put it so, you are now slaves, not of Sin, but of Righteousness (a very crude way of putting it, but I want to help you out). Just as once you were the property of Sin, and all your faculties were instruments of wrong, so now you are the property of Righteousness, and every faculty you have must be an instrument of right. Freed from sin, you are slaves of God; that is what I mean. The wages your old master paid was death. Your new Master makes you a present of life. (Rom. 6:1-23)  Or take another illustration. You know that by law a woman is bound to her husband while he lives; when he is dead she is free; she can marry again if she likes and the law has no claim against her. So you may think of yourselves as having been married to Sin, or to Law. Death has now released you from that marriage bond, though here the illustration halts, for it is Christ's death that has freed you! Well, anyhow, you are free--free, shall I say, to marry Christ. You had a numerous progeny of evil deeds by your first marriage; you must now produce an offspring of good deeds to Christ. I mean, of course, you must serve God in Christ's spirit. (Rom. 7:1-6)  Now I admit that all this sounds as though I identified law with sin. That is not my meaning. But surely it is clear that the function of law is to bring consciousness of sin; e.g., I should never have known what covetousness was but that the law said, "Thou shalt not covet." Such is the perversity of human nature under the dominion of sin that the very prohibition provokes me to covet. There was a time when I knew nothing of Law, and lived my own life. Then Law came, sin awakened in me, and life became death for me. Of course, Law is good, but Sin took advantage of it, to my cost. I am only flesh and blood, and flesh and blood is prone to sin. I can see what is good, and desire it, but I cannot practice it; i.e., my reason recognizes the law, and yet I break it through moral perversity. If you like to put it so, there is one law for my reason, the Law of God, and another for my outward conduct, the law of sin and death. It is like a living man chained to a dead body. It is perfect misery. But, thank God, the chain is broken! The law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ has set me free from the law of sin and death. Christ entered into this human nature of flesh and blood which is under the dominion of Sin. Sin put in its claim to be His master; but Christ won His case; Sin was non-suited, its claim disallowed, and human nature was free. The result is that all the Law stood for of righteousness, holiness, and goodness is fulfilled in those who live by Christ's Spirit. There are two possible forms of human life: there is the life of the lower nature of flesh and blood, of which I have spoken; and there is the life of the spirit. We have Christ's Spirit, and so we can live the life of the spirit. And in the end that Spirit will give new life to the whole human organism. (Rom. 7:7-8:11)  You see, then, that the flesh-and-blood nature has no claim upon us. We belong to the Spirit. Those who are actuated by that Spirit are sons of God. I used a while back the expression, "slaves of God "; but really we are not slaves but sons---sons and heirs of God, like Christ; and when we come into our inheritance, how glorious it will be! (Rom. 8:12-18)  This, however, is still in the future. At the present time the whole universe is in misery, and in its misery it waits for the revelation of God's sons. Now all existence seems futile in its transience; and even we still share creation's pangs. But we have hope; and the ground of that hope is the possession of God's Spirit--in a first installment only, but enough to reckon upon. The fact is that every prayer we utter--yes, even an inarticulate prayer--is the utterance of the Spirit within us. We know that all through God is working with us. His purpose is behind the whole process, and He is on our side. If He gave His Son, we can trust Him to give us everything else. He loves us, and nothing in the world or out of it can separate us from His love. (Rom. 8:18-39) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/382]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much to do, so little done, such things to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053]]></link><description><![CDATA[O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41053</guid></item></channel></rss>