quotes about Psalms
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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 most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
-- Emma LazarusSource : Emma Lazarus (2015). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.19, Courier Corporation
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If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.
-- Jim George -
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 -
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 -
I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.
-- Matt Redman -
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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 -
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 -
The psalm (Psalm 56) hints at the recognition that fear and trust may coexist. The life of faith is then one in which we live in trust even if we also know fear. Perhaps, indeed, trust only exists in the presence of fear.
-- John Goldingay -
Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.
-- Steven J Lawson -