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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21830]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28625]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460]]></link><description><![CDATA[God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth,  That they might touch the hearts of men,   And bring them back to heaven again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been a big focus as to who will be the next Fed chairman, and the market is relieved to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39859]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been a big focus as to who will be the next Fed chairman, and the market is relieved to know that it's going to be someone decent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60126]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing isunchangeable or certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21144]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing isunchangeable or certain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457]]></link><description><![CDATA[History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13426]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the Resurrection appearances when the doors were shut, scene now of their waiting for the Spirit. Whose is it? The clue lies in Acts 12, where St. Peter, strangely freed from Herod's prison, knows at whose house they will be gathered for prayer. He knocks, startles the gate-girl Rhoda. It was "the house of Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark" -- the young man who was to write the earliest of the gospels. The first meeting place of any Christian congregation was the home of a woman in Jerusalem. Something of the sort happens everywhere. The church in Caesarea centres upon Philip the Evangelist. "Now this man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." ... Joppa church depends on Tabitha, "a woman full of good works and almsdeeds which she did". Follow St. Paul about the Mediterranean. He crosses to Europe because he dreams of a man from Macedonia who cries, "Come over and help us". But when he lands at Philippi it is not a man, but a woman. "Lydia was baptized and her household" -- his first convert in Europe, a woman. Everywhere women are the most notable of the converts, often the only ones who believe. In Thessalonica there are "of the chief women not a few"; Beroea, "Greek women of honourable estate"; Athens, only two names, one of them, Damaris, a woman. At Corinth Priscilla and Aquila come into the story, the pair always mentioned together, and four times out of the six with the wife's name first, a thing undreamed of in the first century. Why? Because she counted for more in church affairs -- hostess of the church in her houses in Corinth, Ephesus and Rome, chief instructress of Apollos the missionary, intimate of the greatest missionary of all, St. Paul. Six times in the Epistles greetings are sent to a house-church, and in five cases the church is linked with a woman's name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I make a declaration every spring, Of reformation ere the year run out,  But somehow this my vestal vary takes wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30742]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very hard for adults to change their personality, and Harvard needs a personality who can get all the faculty and schools to work together for the good of the university.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just about every apartment complex in the north part of town is being converted. The price is so much better than a single-family residence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played even with one of the best teams in the state for 16 minutes. But (Arlington) is just relentless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played even with one of the best teams in the state for 16 minutes. But (Arlington) is just relentless on the glass and just slaughtered us on the boards. That's when the wheels started coming off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world loves a good loser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65237]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world loves a good loser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste makes waste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste makes waste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river, Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continued from yesterday:  He, then, whose action is governed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977 Continued from yesterday:  He, then, whose action is governed by mere desire is not free to attain the satisfaction which alone gives meaning to that desire. There is no breaking through this law of our being. Every attempt to do so proves itself in experience to be futile. Hence we are in a more helpless state of bondage than that which materialistic determinism holds; for the tyrant is established within our own consciousness. One way, and one way only, out of this bondage remains. If we can discover how to make our own immediate desire, and the act of will springing out of it, accord with the supreme law of our being, then to "do as we like" will no longer be to run our heads against the stone wall of necessity which shuts us out from the heaven of satisfaction. For we shall only "like" doing what we "ought". This introduces a new sense of the word "freedom". It does not now mean freedom from restrains to follow our desires, but freedom from the tyranny of futile desires to follow what is really good. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45517]]></link><description><![CDATA[For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. from Teaching Children to Love, introduction. -Joseph Chilton Pearce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65889]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727]]></link><description><![CDATA[You got people going home, with people seeing they got nothing and spotting a house that's high and dry. It's a sad situation. Illegal, nonetheless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54172]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enough has... been said to show that the impoverished secularized versions of Christianity which are being urged upon us for our acceptance today rest not upon a serious application of the methods of scientific scholarship nor upon a serious intuitive appreciation of the Gospels as a whole in their natural context, but upon a radical distaste for the supernatural.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  The one great fear which is a holy fear is, I think, lest you make your adventure too small, too easy, too self-full, too mediocre. Christianity fails because people will keep on the surface too much, they will not go down to face these deep inner obediences; and that is ultimately to be beaten by themselves. We talk big and play so small. And the world has found it out --the great bulk have discarded Christianity as the way of Hope and put their hope in other things.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn  September 26, 1998  Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942  Even those of us who are inside it will agree that, in the main, the Church and all for which it stands occupy a palpably smaller place in the life of the average member than it did in former days. We explain it on the ground that life has become fuller, and that, of necessity, our attention nowadays has to percolate over a wide area instead of rushing foam-flecked down a narrower channel -- which is to say, in other words, that Christ is getting lost to us in the crush and throng of things, does not loom up as arresting, as unique, as all-important, as He did to our forefathers. Yet that, when you come to think of it, is no bad definition of unspirituality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38652]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great tournament for us. We are a much stronger team the way we played this week. It looks like we are going to keep this lineup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951   If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark;  Out of the cloud a silence,   Then a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark;  Out of the cloud a silence,   Then a lark;    Out of the heart a rapture,     Then a pain;      Out of the dead, cold ashes,       Life again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47725]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman--and each nation--must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11818]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gambling, eating meat, wine- bibbing, adultery, hunting, thieving, debauchery - these seven things in this world lead to the hells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deeds, not words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deeds, not words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10255</guid></item></channel></rss>