Psalms Quotations

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.

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.

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.

The Psalms are the voices of the church.

For example, the Bible does say this is a proposition, "There is no God." But of course the context of Psalm 14:1 enriches it a bit: "the fool has said in his heart, there is no God." So there are contextual constraints and when you finish putting in all the contextual constraints and sophisticated discussions of what inerrancy is and isn't.

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.

Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.