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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8595<![CDATA[Maundy Thursday Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 What do I mean by "interpret in a religious ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8593<![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Man is challenged to participate in the sufferings of God at the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8594<![CDATA[Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 We preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8596<![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 Not only the young Christian but also the adult Christian will complain ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8597<![CDATA[But when once Christ had called him, Peter had no alternative he must leave the ship and come to Him. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8598<![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels When a man really gives up trying to make something out of himself ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8600<![CDATA[Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8601<![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8612<![CDATA[Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians, because these Christians ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8613<![CDATA[When the Bible speaks of "following Jesus", it is proclaiming a discipleship which will liberate mankind from all man-made dogma, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8599<![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8602<![CDATA[Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle We may suffer the sins of our brother; we do not need to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8603<![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095 The truth is that so long as we hold both sides ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8604<![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 1. the ministry of holding ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8605<![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 2. the ministry of meekness He who would learn ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8606<![CDATA[The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8616<![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 3. the ministry of listening The first service that ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8607<![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 4. the ministry of helpfulness Active helpfulness means, initially, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8608<![CDATA[Commemoration of Scholastica, Abbess of Plombariola, c.543 Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 5. the ministry of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8609<![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 6. the ministry of proclaiming Where Christians live together ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8610<![CDATA[Seven principles for eradicating selfish ambition in the fellowship: 7. the ministry of authority Jesus made authority in ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8611<![CDATA[If temptation were really what natural man and moral man understand by it, namely, testing of their own strength -- ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8614<![CDATA[Feast of Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, 461 Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8615<![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8579<![CDATA[Feast of James the Apostle It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8584<![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8586<![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 The first service one owes to others in the fellowship ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8587<![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 Furthermore, [the unchristian environment] is the place where we find out ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8588<![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The cross is laid on every Christian. It begins ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8580<![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 After all, we are told, our salvation has already been accomplished ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8581<![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8582<![CDATA[Above all, it is not necessary that we should have any unexpected, extraordinary experiences in meditation. This can happen, but ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8583<![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 It is not experience of life but experience of the Cross that ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8585<![CDATA[Feast of Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr, 1980 Commemoration of Paul Couturier, Priest, Ecumenist, 1953 Every moment ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8589<![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 It is the fellowship of the Cross to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8591<![CDATA[Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apostle to the Picts, c. 430 ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8592<![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945 During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8590<![CDATA[Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8568<![CDATA[Only one thing is quite certain: he too has his time and not more than his time. One day others ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8569<![CDATA[We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and mischievous words and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8570<![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 People naturally do not shout it out, least of all into ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8571<![CDATA[Commemoration of Katherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th century In questions of this sort there are two things ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8572<![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 It is well to have specifically holy ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8573<![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 "Homesickness for the [One True Church]" is ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8574<![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349 We may suffer the sins of our brother; we ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8575<![CDATA[Life together under the Word will remain sound and healthy only where it does not form itself into a movement, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8576<![CDATA[Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 The Church is her true self only when she exists for ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8577<![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will only ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8578<![CDATA[One mustn't make the Christian life into a punctilious system of law, like the Jewish, for two reasons. (1) It ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8543