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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity lets goe the bridle. [Prosperity lets go the bridle.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity lets goe the bridle. [Prosperity lets go the bridle.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804]]></link><description><![CDATA[They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Modi) says that his television stations would be in profit after the first year of a four year deal and that 'side-deals', as he puts it, were an integral part of the negotiating process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039]]></link><description><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52565]]></link><description><![CDATA[My object all sublime I shall achieve in time--  To let the punishment fit the crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26587]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's become the new standard. If you want to get on that podium, it's mandatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42086]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's become the new standard. If you want to get on that podium, it's mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He pitched solid. [Like Newhouse] he used the defense. He gave up four hits. That's good enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a truck and forced to stop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44364]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most complex things are the simplest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most complex things are the simplest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17759</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://www.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://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65183]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My family begins with me, your family ends with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15165]]></link><description><![CDATA[My family begins with me, your family ends with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729]]></link><description><![CDATA[He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016]]></link><description><![CDATA[I started doing stand-up in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A most unspotted lily shall she pass To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had the intelligence data; there just was no system in place to intercept them as they were entering the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had the intelligence data; there just was no system in place to intercept them as they were entering the country or as they were boarding the planes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may fortune thou wilt say, "I am content to do the best for my neighbor that I can, saving myself harmless." I promise thee, Christ will not hear their excuse; for He himself suffered harm for our sakes, and for our salvation was put to extreme death. I wis, if it had pleased Him, He might have saved us and never felt pain; but in suffering pains and death He did give us example, and teach us how we should do one for another, as He did for us all; for, as He saith himself, "he that will be mine, let him deny himself, and follow me, in bearing my cross and suffering my pains." Wherefore we must needs suffer pain with Christ to do our neighbor good, as well with the body and all his members, as with heart and mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast;  Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;  The secret anniversaries of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;  The secret anniversaries of the heart,   When the full river of feeling overflows;--    The happy days unclouded to their close;     The sudden joys that our of darkness start      As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart       Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father, but with shorter strides.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59150]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34438]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They earned a trip to the tournament. It's a sad deal for them. It's not our favorite way to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33747]]></link><description><![CDATA[They earned a trip to the tournament. It's a sad deal for them. It's not our favorite way to get there, but if Mohawk can't go then obviously we would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of church, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33782]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of church,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriages are made in Heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriages are made in Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30326</guid></item></channel></rss>