<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Religion / beliefs - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53767]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In His will is our peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53764]]></link><description><![CDATA[In His will is our peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53761]]></link><description><![CDATA[For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53757]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53755]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53750]]></link><description><![CDATA[And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53753]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Non-violence is the article of faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she was fourteen and praying for her future husband.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53748]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what we believe we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53743]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man of one book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a continuation of reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a continuation of reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53733]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53728]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53723]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer words the better prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53715]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53716</guid></item></channel></rss>