<?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[You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feelwhen you come in contact with a new idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22389]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feelwhen you come in contact with a new idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Basil the Great & Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops, Teachers, 379 & 389 Commemoration of Seraphim, Monk of Sarov, Mystic, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7864]]></link><description><![CDATA[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).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never made His work for man to mend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17710]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never made His work for man to mend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were a little lazy in the first half. Coming off the weekend we were a little down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32166]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were a little lazy in the first half. Coming off the weekend we were a little down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borrowing is not much better than begging. [Ger., Borgen ist nicht viel besser als betteln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13994]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_|. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_|.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49267]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to see without a bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52315]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65848]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're certainly aiming for that but it's hard to crystal-ball it. At the moment it's very encouraging because he's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34712]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're certainly aiming for that but it's hard to crystal-ball it. At the moment it's very encouraging because he's not feeling much [pain] at all in everyday activities, which he did before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56212]]></link><description><![CDATA[The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy is a virtue unknown in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee,  Oh! still remember me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think lots of people will be out there today. This is a stage in a movement that is growing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think lots of people will be out there today. This is a stage in a movement that is growing and that no politician can ignore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands. [Lat., Qui orat laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful sanctuaries, paved parking lots, and new liturgies will do very little for people who sit in worship with their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful sanctuaries, paved parking lots, and new liturgies will do very little for people who sit in worship with their fingers crossed and do not really believe the faith which is expounded. Often the layman dismisses what the preacher says as something irrelevant to his situation and generation. When he joins a group where he is no longer afraid to be frank, the supposedly faithful member often admits that he has never really accepted what he thinks he has heard. He has, for example, grave reservations about the idea of creation. Did not the world evolve of itself? Do we really need the hypothesis of Infinite Purpose to make sense of the physical, biological, and psychological development? These questions seldom come to the surface when the Church provides merely a one-way preaching. There is little chance of renewal if all that we have is the arrangement by which one speaks and the others listen. One trouble with this conventional system is that the speaker never knows what the unanswered questions are, or what reservations remain in the layman's mentality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home improvement retailers like Lowe's have large bulky merchandise in our stores and we carry big quantities of these products, as many as 40,000 products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true ship is the ship builder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true ship is the ship builder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54776]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation that you ever had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could knowhow seldom they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could knowhow seldom they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, and Patience, and death with repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40026]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is an unbelievable coach. I loved playing for him and I don't think I've had a better coach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he higher climbs into spiraling steam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54410]]></link><description><![CDATA[See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears,  With nodding arches, broken temples spread!   The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5100]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5100</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[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27976]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534]]></link><description><![CDATA[How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,  I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain. - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 1818.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr., La grammaire, qui sait regenter jusqu'aux rois,  Et les fait, la main haute, obeir a ses lois.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24008</guid></item></channel></rss>