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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Things always happen in series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things always happen in series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. [Lat., Studiis florentem ignobilis oti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56083]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the devil's scripture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19389]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the devil's scripture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53149</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[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52057]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48573]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, there are political complications in Haiti, too, ... But when people are basically unhappy because they don't have a good way of life, they don't have a job, it's often related to too many people and too few opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people who can't get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33614]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Yet many people have found the book difficult to understand.] We're hearing from a lot of people who can't get through the handbook, ... They say they can't find out what they need to know. It's a little dense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487]]></link><description><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37282]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are examining what alternative documents we could use for people in those border areas to go back and forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity is the sin of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rule by patience, Laughing Water! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rule by patience, Laughing Water!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discharge is my first. I love Black Flag and all those guys. And Ramones, of course. And then I like Blondie,.. a little lighter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18152]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42078]]></link><description><![CDATA[These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity is being seen globally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56307]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13250]]></link><description><![CDATA[One solid dish his week-day meal affords, An added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39669]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot of satisfaction knowing that we made it through the hard times without me as head coach and that everything is OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside an oasis, there are many little deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inside an oasis, there are many little deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are actually hoping that the special session will work to educators' benefit in that something positive needs to happen in order for (Perry's) re-election to occur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids are feeling better about what they are doing, and are ready for that 'W' on Tuesday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39003]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10218]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45348]]></link><description><![CDATA[She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22927]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, and protracted feast,   Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder'd rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019]]></link><description><![CDATA[I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch,  Is celebrated, not so much   To thank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch,  Is celebrated, not so much   To thank the Lord for blessing o'er,    As for the sake of getting more!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about the wine show is you have owners pouring their wines, and people can ask them questions about the wine. We consider the event to be classy but casual, meaning you don't have to be a wine aficionado to enjoy this event.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no slavery but ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though fame is smoke, Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48772</guid></item></channel></rss>