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                    In his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey tells the following story as he rode the NY subway one Sunday morning:
	“People were sitting quietly- some reading newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes close. It was a calm, peaceful scene,” wrote
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeremy  Houck on Jun 4, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In his book In the Eye of the Storm, Max Lucado tells about something that happened to him while he was in high school. Every year, he and his family used to go fishing during spring break. But one year, his brother and his mom couldn’t go, so his dad let him invite a friend.
They looked forward
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Jun 23, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Erich Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front tells of a remarkable encounter between two enemy soldiers during the Second World War. During the confusion of an infantry attack a soldier plunged into an out of the way shell hole. There he found a wounded enemy. The sight of the man moved
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 5, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Alice Matthews, in her wonderful book, “Preaching that Speaks to Women” writes:
“Women tend to define themselves morally in terms of relationships, and they also evaluate
                    
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                    Contributed by Jim Kane on Jul 23, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz in their book God is in the Small Stuff for Your Marriage, say, “At the wedding you say, “I do.”
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Simms on Aug 1, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Herbert Stevenson said about this in his book “James Speaks For Today” that “No man can, by general busyness or specific good deed, no matter how noble, merit salvation.  Activity is never a rival to faith.  We cannot gain God’s commendation by presenting to Him- as Cain desired-
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Smith on Sep 3, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Max Lucado in his book on the Lord’s prayer, The Great House of God talks about this metaphor. He writes, “Forgive me for broaching the issue, but I must. I realize the topic is personal, but it’s time we went public. I need to talk to you about being overdrawn at the bank. Your paycheck was late.
                    
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                    Contributed by Brent Baker on Sep 13, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In his book, The One-Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard recommends developing the practice of "one-minute praising," where the manager (or parent, spouse, etc.) tries to "catch someone doing something right" and then spend a full sixty seconds praising that person for the good deed. This is a lot
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Engler on Oct 12, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Terry Bowland in his book Make Disciples – Reaching The Postmodern World for Christ writes this:  “Many today balk at the teaching of the church.  ‘Do you mean to say,” they ask, ‘that all those outside the church have no hope whatsoever?  What about all the sincere folks who never come to Christ? 
                    
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                    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Nov 21, 2005
                
                
                
                    	In her book Mystery on the Desert, Maria Reiche describes a series of strange lines made by the ancient Nazea people in the plains of Peru, perhaps as early as 200 years before the time of Christ.  The area where the lines are covers over 37 miles.  It is impossible to make out what these line
                    
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                    Never let good books take the place of the Bible. Drink from the Well, not from the streams that
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 23, 2006
                
                
                
                    At the end of Charles Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol”, Scrooge has realised the error of his stingy, miserly ways. Scrooge gets converted!
At the end of the book Dickens wrote this: “Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he became
                    
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