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Quotes About Psalms

I wait for you, O LORD; you will answer, O Lord my God. PSALM 38:15
~ Anne Graham Lotz
To Father Rothschild no passage was worse than any other. He thought of the sufferings of the saints, the mutability of human nature, the Four Last Things, and between whiles repeated snatches of the penitential psalms.
~ Evelyn Waugh
My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.
~ Dorothy Day
Father, thank You that I can let the message of Jesus dwell richly in all the rooms of my life. Thank You for all the wisdom, psalms, hymns, and songs of faith that are filling my mind. I declare to every fear and doubt that there is no vacancy. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
~ Joel Osteen
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
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord?
~ Anonymous
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.
~ Anonymous
O sing unto the Lord a new song.
~ Anonymous
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and show ourselves glad in him with psalms.
~ Anonymous
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 Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.
~ Kenneth Scott Latourette
The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints.
~ David Augsburger
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
As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee. PSALM 42 : 1
~ Francine Rivers
I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. (Psalm 32:5)
~ Roger Campbell
especially the Psalms and their obscure origins and uses. The Psalms have been attributed to a number of different periods in the history of Israel, from the time of King David (eleventh or tenth century BCE) down to the age of the Maccabees (second century BCE).
~ John Barton
Finally I examine poetic texts (Chapter 5), especially the Psalms and their obscure origins and uses. The Psalms have been attributed to a number of different periods in the history of Israel, from the time of King David (eleventh or tenth century BCE) down to the age of the Maccabees (second century BCE). One important theory suggests that they were used liturgically in the worship of Solomon's Temple, but many may also have arisen as personal prayers.
~ John Barton
Don't look to wine for your stimulation. That leads only in the direction of ruin. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. Let Him exhilarate your soul and even the excess will be turned to joy in the Lord! Then as you speak to one another, the ecstasy will rise still higher. Your tongues will be loosed in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, rather than carousing.
~ John Crowder
From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.
~ Jeremy Taylor
The imprecatory psalms are for us to pray, who are not victims. Indeed, if we do not want to pray them, it raises questions about the shallowness of our own spirituality, theology and ethics. Do we not want to see wrongdoers put down and punished? One
~ John E. Goldingay
At Clavison the mayor prohibited the Protestants the practice of singing the Psalms commonly used in the temple, that, as he said, the Catholics might not be offended or disturbed.
~ John Foxe
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
The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness all who keep his covenant and obey his demands. —Psalm 25:10
~ Gary Chapman
There's Psalms that tell you things that nobody tells you - that you're fearfully and wonderfully made, that you're beautiful, that you have worth, basically.
~ Michaela Coel