<?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[Doubt, rather than faith, is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the church's response to this current ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt, rather than faith, is high among the causes of the religious boom. And the church's response to this current situation will reveal, better than anything else, our faith in God -- or our faithlessness. If we churchmen interpret such pervasive doubt as a threat, then we will do as the church has done so often in the past: we will substitute the church for God, and make our church-centered activities into an ersatz kingdom of God. Our faithlessness will be evident in the easy paraphrase of the hard truth of the gospel, and in the lapse from the critical loyalty that God requires of us, into the vague and corrupting sentimentalism that has so marred American Protestantism. Or the church can interpret the present religious situation as a promise, as God's recall of His people to a new reformation. Our faithfulness to God-in-Christ will be manifest in the willingness to be honest with ourselves and with the gospel. Then we may view the church, not as an end in itself, but as the point of departure into the world for which the Son of God died. Which will it be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr   Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16958]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,  Novit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16083]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming. [Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,  Novit, quae multo pisce natentur aquae.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63904]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53828]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then? What rests? Try what repentance can. What can it not?  Yet what can it when one cannot repent?   O wretched state? O bosom black as death!    O limed soul, that struggling to be free     Art more engaged!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to me to have come for a frank and direct translation of the Greek New Testament into our modern spoken American English. We take great pains to provide Asiatica and Africana with special versions, so that they may read the Bible each in his own tongue wherein he was born; and why not do as much for our young people, and our fellow citizens generally?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62332]]></link><description><![CDATA[This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is, above all, the gift of oneself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929   The breadth and depth of [William] Carey's missionary service [in India] is well illustrated in the principles laid down for themselves by the Serampore Brotherhood to be read three times a year in each station in their charge. Here is a summary:  To set an infinite value on men's souls. To abstain from whatever deepens India's prejudice against the Gospel. To watch for every chance of doing the people good. To preach Christ crucified as the grand means of conversions. To esteem and treat Indians always as equals. To be instant in the nurture of personal religion. To cultivate the spiritual gifts of the Indian brethren, ever pressing upon them their missionary obligation, since only Indians can win India for Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to say that the officials, our school administration and our school police did an outstanding job of controlling the situation. I thought everyone did a great job in preventing the situation from becoming much worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.  ... Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God February 2, 2000 THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house  And revel it as bravely as the best,   With silken coats and caps and golden rings,    With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;     With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're going to trade a guy of that caliber, you're not going to get the same caliber of talent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36121]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're going to trade a guy of that caliber, you're not going to get the same caliber of talent in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32705]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't supposed to lose this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow,   That gave this gentle name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we were in for a game. It's elimination time. But when the home run came, it kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40572]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we were in for a game. It's elimination time. But when the home run came, it kind of gave us some relief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38074]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew everything would be fine when I got to practice on Monday. By the time I got to practice, the players had already started running practice and I knew that they were serious about getting right back to work and were committed to bouncing back and playing to their capabilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't hurt, ... It's like deja vu all over again. It's fine. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33832]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not going to lie and say it doesn't hurt, ... It's like deja vu all over again. It's fine. I'll take the same approach as last year. All I can do is prepare for battle. When game time comes I'll play above and beyond.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Local production will make our position even stronger since we can offer our main volume model at a very competitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Local production will make our position even stronger since we can offer our main volume model at a very competitive price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571]]></link><description><![CDATA[We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of "let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28382]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a gutsy call. Somebody's got to get through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager decided to close it because he didn't have any cooks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29623]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've known for 16 months that we oppose the concept of additional contract workers at CBC.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31743]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that the main event is the Senate race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52535]]></link><description><![CDATA[I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair;  And they, that lovely face who view,   They should not ask if truth be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send;  He gave to misery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send;  He gave to misery (all he had) a tear,   He gain'd from Heaven ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46461</guid></item></channel></rss>