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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6691]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord, let thyself be found with a good gift to everyone who needs it, that the happy may find courage to accept thy good gifts, that the sorrowful may find courage to accept thy perfect gifts. For to men there is a difference of joy and of sorrow, but for thee, O Lord, there is no difference in these things; everything that comes from thee is a good and perfect gift.   ... Søren Kierkegaard August 16, 2000   By giving to Jesus Christ, the Man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, this historical personality, the name of Lord, the Saviour, we renounce all mysticism. For mysticism in the strict sense exists only where one soars above the sphere of history, and where in place of the Mediator and the historical event are put the inner word of God, the inner motions of the soul, in order to reach immediacy between soul and God, and, in the end, the identity of both. But while it is necessary to safeguard the Christian message of the Holy Spirit from the mystical misunderstanding by calling attention to its relation to Jesus Christ, it is necessary on the other hand to safeguard the message of Jesus Christ and His work from the orthodox and rationalist misunderstanding by emphasizing that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617  Those who think God did this almost incredible thing call it Good Friday because only an extremely good God could do a thing like that. All religions attempt to bridge the gulf between the terrific purity of God and the sinfulness of man, but Christianity believes that God built that bridge Himself. This particular Friday commemorates His deliberate action in allowing Himself to be caught up in the sin-suffering-death mechanism which haunts mankind. He didn't let it end there, for He went on, right through death. But the men who believe in Him can't forget the kind of Person such an act reveals. That's why they call it Good Friday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45079]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do me wrong who say I come no more, When once I know and fail to find you in;  For every day I stand outside your door   And bid you wait, and rise to fight and win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66632]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trinity Sunday   I vehemently dissent from those who would not have private persons read the Holy Scriptures, nor have them translated into the vulgar tongues. I would wish that all women -- girls even -- would read the Gospels and the letters of Paul. I wish that they were translated into all languages of all people. To make them understood is surely the first step. It may be that they might be ridiculed by many, but some would take them to heart. I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13425]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who opens a school door, closes a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the best things are not equal to their fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the best things are not equal to their fame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17489]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33134]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7546]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus that it is "of him". If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit, they will be found in his anointing. If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion; if purity, in his conception; if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his birth he was made like us in all respects that he might learn to feel our pain. If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion; if acquittal, in his condemnation; if remission of the curse, in his cross; if satisfaction, in his sacrifice; if purification, in his blood; if reconciliation, in his descent into hell; if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb; if newness of life, in his resurrection; if immortality, in the same; if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance into heaven; if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all blessings, in his Kingdom; if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power given to him to judge. In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in him, let us drink our fill from this fountain, and from no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17711]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations--entangling alliances with none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no index so sure as the voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60941]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no index so sure as the voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why don't the men propose, mamma? Why don't the men propose?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou a friend to Roderick?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52473]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intentionally, we over-react to customers. That's why we've been so successful. If a customer tells us something, we not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intentionally, we over-react to customers. That's why we've been so successful. If a customer tells us something, we not only react to it, but over-react to it. In this case, over-reacting was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482]]></link><description><![CDATA[History knows no resting place and no plateaus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40645]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a young kid, who at 35 had beat a 30-year politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17656]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57749]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? [Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good workemen are seldome rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good workemen are seldome rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is not the effort of a group of men who are out to prove something to us by the force of their rational arguments. But it is the testimony, or testament, of a group of witnesses... who are bent on simply reporting to us the experience of a love that overtook them and overwhelmed them, a peace that passed all their understanding, and a peace that they in turn would pass on to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow,  Like a sheeted ghost, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And fast through the midnight dark and drear, Through the whistling sleet and snow,  Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept   Towards the reef of Norman's Woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2427]]></link><description><![CDATA[We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56876</guid></item></channel></rss>