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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26979</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/6936]]></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)  ... paraphrased and abridged by C. Harold Dodd, from The Meaning of Paul for Today January 2, 2000 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)  ... paraphrased and abridged by C. Harold Dodd, from The Meaning of Paul for Today January 3, 2000 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.  ... paraphrased and abridged by C. Harold Dodd, from The Meaning of Paul for Today January 4, 2000  Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I celebrate my sexuality and it is something that I exude on stage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42724]]></link><description><![CDATA[I celebrate my sexuality and it is something that I exude on stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14897]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18635]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49887]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wonder of the life of Jesus is this -- and you will find it so and you have found it so if you have ever taken your New Testament and tried to make it the rule of your daily life -- that there is not a single action that you are called upon to do of which you need be, of which you will be, in any serious doubt for ten minutes as to what Jesus Christ, if he were here, Jesus Christ being here, would have you do under those circumstances and with the materials upon which you are called upon to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2462]]></link><description><![CDATA[A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to put my money on it, ... I'd say he's not going to read it. He might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37096]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to put my money on it, ... I'd say he's not going to read it. He might leaf through it. He's not going to sit down and read it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783]]></link><description><![CDATA[The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52958]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331]]></link><description><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33914]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would appear as though I cannot catch second place. I'm fine. I'm feeling OK. I accomplished what I wanted to do, and that was run for an elected office and tell people that I was out there and I'm available.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Blair has long felt -- he certainly felt after September 11 -- that there was no moral or strategic advantage to be gained by artificial distance from the U.S.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apollo does not always bend his bow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apollo does not always bend his bow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would prefer to make the changes we're looking for within the Memorial framework, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38767]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would prefer to make the changes we're looking for within the Memorial framework,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Christianity is pre-eminently the religion of the heart. It does not always ask words, but it always wants work. The motives and not the means are the things on which it passes judgment. And the man who shows by his life that he is not ashamed of the Gospel will assuredly one day find that the Gospel is not ashamed of him. There is much more which might be said, but I refrain. Ere I close, you will let me add my emphasis to the fact that it is in our life and conduct that we must show our devotion to Christ. The silent Gospel reaches further than the grandest rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005]]></link><description><![CDATA[We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six to nine months, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42249]]></link><description><![CDATA[With profits in such a tailspin, I'm revising down my capital expenditure outlook for the next six to nine months, and (I see) almost zero job growth for rest of this year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have a wrong sow by the ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58497]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have a wrong sow by the ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of our infield is our biggest improvement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Cato -Marcus Antonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340]]></link><description><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So here we are again, a few billion miles farther along our mysterious path among the immensities. What a comfort ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7309]]></link><description><![CDATA[So here we are again, a few billion miles farther along our mysterious path among the immensities. What a comfort it is to know the Man in charge of it all. Without Him, it would be easy to think that the whole of time and space, and life itself, are without reason, purpose, or meaning -- as H. G. Wells said, that it is "a bad joke beyond our unterstanding, a flare of vulgarity, an empty laugh braying across the mysteries." With Jesus forever between God and us, we can understand a few things, and trust Him for the rest. After all, He is one of us: a baby once, as we all were; then, and forever after, a Man, as we all shall always be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hercules and the WagonerA CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut. The rustic driver, stupefied and aghast, stood looking at the wagon, and did nothing but utter loud cries to Hercules to come and help him. Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him: Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man. Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain. Self-help is the best help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1518</guid></item></channel></rss>