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The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder. -- Steven J Lawson
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. -- C. S. Lewis
Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David? -- Bruce R. McConkie
The Psalms are the voices of the church. -- Ambrose
If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms. -- Jim George
The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say. -- John Donne
If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms. -- Jim George
The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms. -- Richard Steele
You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss. -- Stone Cold Steve Austin
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? (Psalms 80:4) -- Bible
[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended. -- Martin Luther
I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms. -- Matt Redman
Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is. -- Lynn Austin
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. -- David Augsburger
American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. -- Mike Huckabee
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. -- Reverend Malcolm Boyd
From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving. -- Jeremy Taylor
What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. -- Bono
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing. -- Charles Spurgeon
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome. -- Isaac Watts
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. -- St. Jerome
The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife. -- Robert Duvall
The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91. -- Ray Lewis
I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV) -- Anonymous
The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole. -- Arno Hintjens
All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone. -- William E. Gladstone
There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster's guide to Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the city. -- Jan Morris
The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves. -- Charles Spurgeon
I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls. -- Steve Allen
The Bible states in Psalms 139:14 that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and that you are a wonderful work of art. That makes you uniquely special. It only makes sense for you to just be the special you that you were created to be period. -- DeWayne Owens
My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. -- Dorothy Day
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. -- David K. Shipler
In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal. -- Rick Warren
Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the greatness of his kingdom and a sense of what living with him for eternity will be like. -- Gordon Fee
To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion. -- Isaac Watts
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal. -- J. I. Packer
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach. -- John Knox
It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of worship. We might say that worship is simply theology, doctrine, what we think about God, going into top gear! Instead of merely thinking about Him, we tell Him, in prayer and praise and song, how great and glorious we believe Him to be! -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam. -- Johannes Tauler
Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah. -- Meir Soloveichik
The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing. -- Gloria Gaither
Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around. -- Corita Kent
Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man. -- Billy Graham
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine. -- Radhanath Swami
I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me. -- Iyanla Vanzant
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated. -- Philip Yancey
Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise. -- Charles Spurgeon
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold. -- Aberjhani
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold." -- Aberjhani
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God. -- R. C. Sproul
In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams. -- Bob Dylan
We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life. -- Dwight L. Moody
Poetic language is singularly appropriate for recounting the life of the king who is traditionally accepted as the author of the poetic psalms, some of which are included in the narrative. -- Robert Pinsky

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