<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus A LETTER FROM PAUL THE MISSIONARY TO THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIANS IN ROME The following abridged paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans aims at presenting in a plain way the continuous sequence of the argument, while suggesting the free epistolary form of the original: My DEAR FELLOW-CHRISTIANS OF ROME,  Wherever I go I hear of your faith, and I thank God for it. It is a part of my daily prayers that I may be permitted to visit you. I believe such a visit would do you good, and I am sure it would do me good. In fact, I have tried again and again to get to Rome, but hitherto something has always turned up to prevent me. I shall not feel that my work as missionary to the Gentiles is complete until I have preached in Rome. My mission is a universal one, knowing no bounds of race or culture--naturally, since my message is a universal one. It is a message of God's righteousness, revealed to men on a basis of faith. (Rom. 1:1-17)  Apart from this, there is nothing to be seen in the world of today but the Nemesis of sin. Take the pagan world: all men have a knowledge of God by natural religion; but the pagan world has deliberately turned its back upon this knowledge, and, for all its boasted philosophy, has degraded religion into idolatry. The natural consequence is a moral perversity horrible to contemplate. (Rom. 1:18-32)  But you, my Jewish friend, need not dwell with complacency upon the sins of the pagan world. You are guilty yourself. Do not mistake God's patience with His people for indulgence. His judgments are impartial. Knowledge or ignorance of the Law of Moses makes no difference here. The pagans have God's law written in their conscience. If they obey it, well; if not, they stand condemned. And as for you--you call yourself a Jew and pride yourself on the Law. But have you kept all its precepts? You are circumcised and so forth: that goes for nothing; God looks at the inner life of motive and affection. An honest pagan is better than a bad Jew in His sight. I do not mean to say there is no advantage in being a Jew: of this more presently ; but read your Bible and take to yourself the hard words of the prophets--spoken, remember, not to heathens, but to people who knew the Law, just as you do. No, Jew and pagan, we are in the same case. No one can stand right before God on the basis of what he has actually done. Law only serves to bring consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 2:1-3:20)  But now, Law apart, we have a revelation of God's righteousness, as I was saying (Rom. 1:17). It comes by faith, the faith of Jesus Christ; and it comes to every one, Jew or Gentile, who has faith. We have all sinned, and all of us can be made to stand right with God. That is a free gift to us, due to His graciousness. We are emancipated in Christ Jesus, who is God's appointed means of dealing with sin--a means operating by the devotion of His life, and by faith on our part. It is thus that God, having passed over sins committed in the old days when He held His hand, demonstrates His righteousness in the world of to-day; i.e., it is thus that He both shows Himself righteous, and makes those stand right before Him who have faith in Jesus Christ. No room for boasting here! No distinction of Jew and Gentile here! (Rom. 3:21-31)  But what about Abraham? you will say. Did not he win God's graciousness by what he did? Not at all. Read your Bible, and you will find that the promise was given to him before he was circumcised; and the Bible expressly says that "he had faith in God, and that counted for righteousness." The same principle applies to us all. (Rom. 4:1-25)  To return to the point, then, we stand right with God on the ground of faith, and we are at peace with Him, come what may. God's love floods our whole being--a love shown in the fact that Christ died for us, not because we were good people for whom anyone might die, but actually while we were sinners. He died, not for His friends, but for His enemies. Very well then, if while we were enemies Christ died for us, surely He will save us now that we are friends! If He reconciled us to God by dying for us, surely He will save us by living for us, and in us. There is something to boast about! (Rom. 5:1-11)  Christ died and lives for us all, I say. But, you ask, how can the life and death of one individual have consequences for so many? You believe that we all suffer for Adam's sin; and if so, why should we not all profit by Christ's righteousness? Of course there is really no comparison between the power of evil to propagate itself, and the power of good to win the victory, for that is a matter of God's graciousness. However, you see my point : one man sinned--a whole race suffers for it; one Man lived righteously--a whole race wins life by it. But what about Law? you say. Law only came in by the way, to intensify the consciousness of guilt. (Rom. 5:12-21) (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from all contingencies and from all works, and there will come over him in this state of emptiness a peace which is very great, lovely, and agreeable, and which is in itself no sin since it is part of our human nature. But when it is taken for a veritable possessing of God, or unity with God, then it is sin, for it is in reality nothing else than a state of thorough passivity and apathy untouched by the power from on high -- a purely negative state from which (if one in arrogance calls it divine) nothing follows but blindness, failure of understanding, and a disinclination to be governed by the rules of ordinary righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52041]]></link><description><![CDATA[...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841  The Day of Jesus Christ is the Day of all days; the brilliant and visible light of this one point is the hidden invisible light of all points; to perceive the righteousness of God once and for all here is the hope of righteousness (Gal. 5:5) everywhere and at all times. By the knowledge of Jesus Christ all human waiting is guaranteed, authorized and established; for He makes it known that it is not men who wait, but God -- in His faithfulness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710]]></link><description><![CDATA[You tell your doctor, that y' are ill And what does he, but write a bill,  Of which you need not read one letter,   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.    For if you knew but what you take,     Though you recover, he must break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15650]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,  And trifles life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divine ashes are better then earthly meale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241]]></link><description><![CDATA[My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,  Came here in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26619]]></link><description><![CDATA[No doubt they rose up early to observe The rite of May; and, hearing our intent,  Came here in grace of our solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In 1992 and 1993, people thought I was crazy. Then, all my predictions started coming true, and I realized I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36671]]></link><description><![CDATA[In 1992 and 1993, people thought I was crazy. Then, all my predictions started coming true, and I realized I had better get the book out before people said I was just reporting the news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10639]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mother of invention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exasperation is the mother of invention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38844]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57827]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to know David Allan through a friend about five years ago. When he heard about all our troubles with the hurricanes, he decided to do us a favor and perform here. He hasn't played a place this small in 20 years. He might have a tough guy image, but he has a lot of heart, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's crazy and it just got crazier, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37654]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's crazy and it just got crazier,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goe not for every griefe to the Phtsitian, nor for every quarrell to the Lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry, Of bugles going by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18344]]></link><description><![CDATA[That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter Leaves us doubly serious shortly after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60720]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets thinks, with her timid blue eye, To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last frosts are the worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last frosts are the worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows how difficult anything is until he has tried to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is like the company he is wont to keep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are the main landmarks of the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   The sure way to success for any commercial venture is to suggest that those people who buy things from it, or gamble on its terms, are members of a "club", a "circle". Study the advertisements in any popular magazine: people are "invited to apply for membership"; "members will receive a catalogue"; they are even offered "rules", which they gladly accept because the need for authority lies heavily upon them; they then receive a card admitting them to the circle, with the "President's signature" printed on it. In the need for belonging, the acknowledgement of dependence, may lie the greatest opportunity of the Christian evangelist. It is not unlike the conditions under which the early Church worked. In the later Roman Empire, crumbling under its own size, its communications and resources stretched to the utmost, the mystery-religions came into their own. Rites of initiation, the sharing of secret knowledge, offered to people of all classes an escape from the perplexities of life, a retreat into a closed circle of the elect where they might feel that their transformed personalities had some significance. Who can know how many weary souls there were who strayed into the Church through rumours of a secret rite of purification, of a shared meal that conferred wisdom, and who remained to comprehend the fullness of the Godhead, a belonging greater than they had ever imagined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I do no good action here, merely for the interpretation of good men, though that be one good and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8284]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I do no good action here, merely for the interpretation of good men, though that be one good and justifiable reason of my good actions: so I must do nothing for my salvation hereafter, merely for the love I bear to mine own soul, though that also be one good and justifiable reason of that action; but the primary reason in both, as well as the actions that establish a good name, as the actions that establish eternal life, must be the glory of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46138</guid></item></channel></rss>