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Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. 'What!' is the appropriate response, 'than ten hours over your books, on your knees?' Why should you turn from God when you turn to your books, or feel that you must from your books in order to turn to God?

B. B. Warfield The Religious Life of Theological Students

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The Religious Life of Theological Students (Princeton address, 4 Oct 1911)
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  1. Rejects prayer-vs-study dichotomy; learning and devotion must be both/and for ministerial students.

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