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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it,  And what the word did make it,   That I believe and take it.   - Elizabeth I,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We plan to selectively open stores each year in important markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We plan to selectively open stores each year in important markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21755]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you  For learning me your language!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29927]]></link><description><![CDATA[It didn't dawn on me that we were older/elderly women. Later, of course, people felt we were doing so much to further the cause of mature women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5456]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud of the girls fighting back and keeping with it. It was neat to see that they fought and came back. We could've folded up shop after that goal in the first minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world is nothing except it tend to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49969]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world is nothing except it tend to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49969</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[He that is down can fall no lower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is down can fall no lower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58942]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is with those who persevere]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But certain winds will make men's temper bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61643]]></link><description><![CDATA[But certain winds will make men's temper bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44983]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explosive material plus radioactive material equals dirty bomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have been able to clarify issues, ... I do not want to say it does not mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41944]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have been able to clarify issues, ... I do not want to say it does not mean that in all details we agree 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49087]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927]]></link><description><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a waiting hush,   Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus The blessed son of God only In a crib full poor did lie; With our poor flesh and our poor blood Was clothed that everlasting good The Lord Christ Jesu, God's son dear, Was a guest and a stranger here; Us for to bring from misery, That we might live eternally. All this did he for us freely, For to declare his great mercy; All Christendom be merry therefore, And give him thanks for evermore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13686]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are one another's angels ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are one another's angels]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good folly is worth what you pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35530]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good folly is worth what you pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64260]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810]]></link><description><![CDATA[O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts,  If I have done amiss, impute it not!   The best may err, but you are good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only between the Arab nations and Brazil, but also with the countries of South America. This is a very strong option for expansion of business, attracting investment and promoting the transfer of technologies. And I made this very clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947]]></link><description><![CDATA[To John I owed great obligation: But John unhandsomely thought fit  To publish it to all the nation;   Sure John and I are more than quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20119]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58620]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sounds like a geography question. I'm a geography major, so you're probably talking to the right guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. [Lat., Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe  Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speculation has picked up in Western Canada, while housing markets in Central Canada appear to be coming in for a soft landing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. - The Psychoed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25391</guid></item></channel></rss>