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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035]]></link><description><![CDATA[For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57132]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! There is Jackson standing like a stone wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a state of consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a state of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to be grateful that at least they got the food to the table warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing somethingthat isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing somethingthat isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object? -Confucius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20144]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make an end of my dinner--there's pippins and seese to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38091]]></link><description><![CDATA[June and July we were looking at terrible crops, and then I think we benefited from hurricane rains and had a better crop than we thought, which dropped the prices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot has been done but it's not necessarily high profile. What we are missing is some kind of high profile project.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57057]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29944]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no reason for people to be on township roads when we're in a state of emergency unless they live out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But because the victims die gradually from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, HIV, and from drug and alcohol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33211]]></link><description><![CDATA[But because the victims die gradually from diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, HIV, and from drug and alcohol abuse, the public are generally unaware of the scale of the fatalities,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the anger habit: Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Donot express it-this would not only hurt you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21158]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the anger habit: Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Donot express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripplesin your surroundings. What you do is transform it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   If all you have found [in Christianity] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650   If all you have found [in Christianity] is advantage, whether it is fun or profit or security, then you haven't started following Him yet. His way is the way of the Cross. The world can be very hard on those it hates. If it is not hard on you, perhaps it sees nothing in you to hate. But then it doesn't see Jesus in you, for it hates Jesus with an undying hatred. While your way is still all fun, all easy, all jolly, it is only your way: when you turn from it to follow His way, it will cost. It may cost you everything you have. That is what it cost Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41276]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16035]]></link><description><![CDATA[When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17491]]></link><description><![CDATA[You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man knows more than he understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man knows more than he understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains;  A graver fact, enlisted on your side, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains;  A graver fact, enlisted on your side,   May furnish illustration, well applied;    But sedentary weavers of long tales     Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning, you’re not old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17613</guid></item><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[Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are able because they think they are able.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/96</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Markets are now focused squarely on inflation, ... Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force the Fed's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Markets are now focused squarely on inflation, ... Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force the Fed's hand to take rates up faster than the market currently anticipates?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16173]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy's will is the wind's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy's will is the wind's will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15708]]></link><description><![CDATA[To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15708</guid></item></channel></rss>