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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every picture tells a story.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilty consciences always make people cowards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29266]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ways to solve the problem as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 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)  That concludes the present stage of my argument; but before I can proceed to final deductions, I must return to a difficulty already raised (Rom. 3:1-4). If there is no difference between Jew and Gentile, does all the great past of Israel go for nothing? Do all the promises of Scripture go for nothing? First, let me say how bitterly I regret the exclusion of the Jewish nation as a body from the new life. I would surrender all my Christian privileges if I could find a way to bring them in. But we must recognize facts; and the first fact is that the nation as a whole never was able to claim the promises; from the beginning, there was a process of selection. Of the sons of Abraham, Isaac alone was called; of the sons of Isaac, Jacob only. If we ask why, there is no answer save that God is bound by no natural or historical necessity, but intervenes according to His will. To question that will is as absurd as for the pot to arraign the potter. Then again, while some members of the Hebrew race have always fallen out, always God has declared His purpose ultimately to include others, not members of the Hebrew race--and that is just what is now happening. Now, as I said, I desire nothing more earnestly than that the whole nation should be saved. But the fact is that they have deliberately rejected the chance that was offered them. There is nothing remote or abstruse about the Christian message. It is a very simple thing: acknowledge Jesus as Lord, and believe that He is alive; that is all. And they cannot say that they have never heard the message, for Christ has His witnesses everywhere. It looks, then, as if God had rejected His people, as punishment for their obstinacy. I do not believe it. God's promises cannot go for nothing. In the first place, there has always been, and there still is, a faithful remnant of the Jewish people. And in the second place, as for the main body, their present rejection of the message is only a means in God's Providence for its extension to the Gentiles. The old olive-tree of Israel stands yet; many of its branches have been lopped off, and new branches of wild olive have been engrafted in their place. But God can engraft the lopped branches on again, if it be His will; and I believe it is His will, and that in the end the whole nation will return to Him and inherit the promises. And if the failure of Israel has meant such blessing to the world, how much greater blessing will its ultimate salvation bring! God's purpose, as I said at the beginning (Rom. 1:16), is universal: He has permitted the whole of humanity, Jew and Gentile alike, to fall under sin, only in order that He may finally have mercy on the whole of humanity, Jew and Gentile alike. How profound and unsearchable are His plans! (Rom. 9:1-11:36)  So now I can take up again my main argument. If this is the way of God's dealing with us, what ought to be our response? Can we do less than offer our entire selves to God as a sacrifice of thanksgiving? How will that work out? In a life lived as by members of one single body. Let each perform his part faithfully. Let love rule all your relations one to another, and to those outside, even to your enemies. Do not regard the Emperor as outside the scope of love, but obey his laws and pay his taxes. Yes, and pay all debts to every one. Love is, in fact, the one comprehensive debt of man to man. If you love your neighbour as yourself, you have fulfilled the whole moral law. But be in earnest about things, for the better day is already dawning. (Rom. 12:1-13:14)  I hear you have differences among yourselves about Sabbath-keeping and vegetarianism. Take this matter, then, as an example of what I mean by the application of brotherly love to all conduct. Remember that the Sabbatarian and the anti-Sabbatarian, the vegetarian and the meat-eater, are alike servants of one Master. Give each other credit for the best motives. Do not think of yourself alone; think of your Christian brother, and try to put yourself in his place. If he seems to you a weak-minded, over-scrupulous individual, remember that in any case he is your brother, and that Christ died for him as well as for you, and reverence his conscience. If through your example he should do an act which is harmless in you but sin to him, you have injured his conscience. Is it worth while so to imperil a soul for the sake of your liberty in such external matters? If the other man is weak-minded, and you strong-minded, all the more reason why you should help to bear his burden. Remember, Christ did not please Himself. In a word, Sabbatarian and anti-Sabbatarian, Jew and Gentile, treat one another as Christ has treated you, and God be with you. (Rom. 14:1-15:13)  Well, friends, I hardly think you needed this long exhortation from me. You are intelligent Christians, and well able to give one another good advice. Still, I thought I might venture to remind you of a few points ; for after all, I do feel a measure of responsibility for you, as missionary to the Gentiles. I have now accomplished my mission as far West as the Adriatic. Now I am going to Jerusalem to hand over the relief fund we have raised in Greece. After that I hope to start work in the West, and I propose to set out for Spain and take Rome on my way. Pray for me, that my errand to Jerusalem may be successful, so that I may be free to visit you. (Rom. 15:14-33)  I wish to introduce to you our friend Phoebe. She renders admirable service to our congregation at Cenchrea. Do all you can for her; she deserves it.  Kind regards to Priscilla and Aquila, Epaenetus, Mary, and all friends in Rome.   (P.S.--Beware of folk who make mischief. Be wise; be gentle; and all good be with you.)  Timothy, Lucius, Jason, Sosipater, and all friends at Corinth send kind regards. (So do I--Tertius, amanuensis!)  Glory be to God!  With all good wishes,  Your brother,  PAUL, Missionary of Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51078]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wilful man maun hae his way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Barbour is ideologically opposed to tax increases, and he apparently wants to finish his term saying he avoided one, even in the face of this tremendous disaster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30095]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will go there with an extremely open mind. If they are really serious . . . we should be able to find an agreement without too much difficulty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a relief to hear because I thought Peter had been very faithful to the book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29229]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a relief to hear because I thought Peter had been very faithful to the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless, limited core inflation in January will not deter the ECB from hiking interest rates by a further 25 basis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, limited core inflation in January will not deter the ECB from hiking interest rates by a further 25 basis points on Thursday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a privilege as well as being exciting. The fans are extremely tribal, very parochial, very supportive, and it's one of the huge highlights so far of my coaching career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28777]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had to take one bus trip for eight hours. It was a nice bus, leather seats and all that. But eight hours on a bus? That's crazy man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was Andy Warhol a bisexual?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of] Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions (Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to build a Gothic cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52203]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was perfect tennis weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was perfect tennis weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305]]></link><description><![CDATA[If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at full adulthood and wanted to connect to its anti-establishment youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13422]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest;  That man's the best Cosmopolite  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59419]]></link><description><![CDATA[First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest;  That man's the best Cosmopolite   Who knows his native country best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found significant problems, the expedited removal process has been expanded over and over again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay a little and news will find you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   This matter of "salvation" is, when seen intuitively, a very simple thing. But when we analyze it, it turns into a complex tangle of paradoxes. We become ourselves by dying to ourselves. We gain only what we give up, and if we give up everything we gain everything. We cannot find ourselves within ourselves, but only in others; yet at the same time, before we can go out to others we must first find ourselves. We must forget ourselves in order to become truly conscious of who we are. The best way to love ourselves is to love others; yet we cannot love others unless we love ourselves, since it is written, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly, we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others. Yet there is a sense in which we must hate others and leave them in order to find God... As for this finding of God, we cannot even look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless He has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace; yet if we wait for grace to move us before beginning to seek Him, we will probably never begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22031]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On wings of wind came flying all abroad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18780]]></link><description><![CDATA[On wings of wind came flying all abroad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danny's the last of that generation of players that saved baseball in Seattle. Of the 34 postseason games this team has played, Dan Wilson started 30 of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told him to bring it down to the courthouse if he wants some of me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38120]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told him to bring it down to the courthouse if he wants some of me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.  .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61927]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight.   - Thomas Percy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surely the stars are images of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57812</guid></item></channel></rss>