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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

D. A. Carson

So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it’s the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn’t interested in any of those kinds of things.
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Awkward People Writing
There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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Long Teaching
We are dealing with God’s thoughts: we are obligated to take the greatest pains to understand them truly and to explain them clearly.
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Effective Greatest Pain Teaching
The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.
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Hate Liars Wrath
Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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Christian Holy Play Scripture Two
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Lost Mean Opinion
When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.
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Heart Long People
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
As long as young people are asking, ‘Can I get away with this?’ or ‘Can I get away with that?’ I wonder if they’re regenerate. If they’re asking, instead, ‘How can I grow in holiness?’ then I suspect they’ve begun to understand.
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Holiness People Suspect Wonder Young
God in his infinite wisdom chose to give us his Word in the 66 canonical books, with all of their variations in theme, emphasis, vocabulary, literary form, and distinctive contributions across time.
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Contribution Distinctive God Vocabulary
A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
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Courage God Little Love Sympathy
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God’s approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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Approval Prayer Reputation
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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God Knows Suffering Way
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
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Archeological Information Often Sunday
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
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Boys Doors Running

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