Quotes about Psalms

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. Votes: 6

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. Votes: 5

Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder. Votes: 4

[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended. Votes: 4

I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms. Votes: 4

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues. Votes: 4

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? Votes: 4

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms. Votes: 3

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say. Votes: 3

If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms. Votes: 3

The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians. Votes: 3

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms. Votes: 3

You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss. Votes: 3

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? (Psalms 80:4) Votes: 3

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is. Votes: 3

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. Votes: 3

American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. Votes: 3

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer. Votes: 3

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving. Votes: 3

The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The Psalms are the voices of the church. Votes: 2

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise. Votes: 0

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold. Votes: 0

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold." Votes: 0

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God. Votes: 0

In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed to some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0