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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10709]]></link><description><![CDATA[A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonder not then that all the true followers of Christ, the saints of every age, have so gloried in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonder not then that all the true followers of Christ, the saints of every age, have so gloried in the cross of Christ, have imputed such great things to it, have desired nothing so much as to be partakers of it, to live in constant union with it. It is because His sufferings, His death and cross, were the fulness of His victory over all the works of the devil. Not an evil in flesh and blood, not a misery of life, not a chain of death, not a power of hell and darkness, but were all baffled, broken, and overcome by the process of a suffering and dying Christ. Well, therefore, may the cross of Christ be the glory of Christians!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16456]]></link><description><![CDATA[A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has strangled His language in his tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24014]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has strangled His language in his tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate objective of all this is the destruction of Arab identity; for the enemies of the Arab nation are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29890]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate objective of all this is the destruction of Arab identity; for the enemies of the Arab nation are opposed to our possessing any identity or upholding any creed that could protect our existence and cohesion, guide our vision and direction, or on which we can rely in our steadfastness,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no limit to the power of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no limit to the power of loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51228]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Across the noisy street I hear him careless throw  One warning utterance sweet;   Then faint at first, and low,    The full notes closer grow;     Hard, what a torrent gush!      They pour, they overflow--       Sing on, sing on, O thrush!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30331]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a beautiful thing to experience. Venezuelan fans really inspire you. Usually when you play here, the crowd is a bit more sedate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51148]]></link><description><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61853]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school needs extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school needs extra money or extra things, it doesn't matter how the kids perform. I think these schools need a lot more money and a lot more effort put into them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better halfe a loafe than no bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better halfe a loafe than no bread.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. I'll give them credit, and they pressured us really, really well. They were very good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35999]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shot the lights out. I'll give them credit, and they pressured us really, really well. They were very good defensively, and they frustrated us on our opportunities with the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56346]]></link><description><![CDATA[Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, which in our eyes are formidable, in his are despicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine is better than ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39766]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe the final decision was pretty clear. At a time when the state is developing community-based treatment and support programs for children ... a large adolescent psychiatric hospital doesn't represent the best way to meet the individual needs of adolescents in our region.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4477]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take--choose the bolder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5963]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945   There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely difficult to find, of living every day as though it were our last, and yet living in faith and responsibility as though there were to be a great future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a rebel? A man who says no]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little journeys and good cost bring safe home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33860]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a linkage with the partners that will continue to give us that edge in understanding what that next set of opportunities and values are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad:  Silence accompanied; for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad:  Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,   They to they grassy couch, these to their nests,    Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18322]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62603]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any time you can hold a team like that on defense, it makes the game easier for everybody. We count on the defense to make plays. That's what's going to win us games in the playoffs. We just have to keep playing hard and finish games and we'll have a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49155</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[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we\'re going to break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66682]]></link><description><![CDATA[On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we\'re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your economic development organization is a one-man show and it's handicapped and doesn't have the resources to do what you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42692]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can miss one player, but it's tough when you're missing four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42692</guid></item></channel></rss>