Psalms Quotes

• The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Book, Verbs

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2012). “Anger”, p.12, Rose Publishing Inc

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• If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.

  Jim George

  Needs, Ongoing, Guides

  Jim George (2016). “The Basic Bible Pocket Guide: *Book by Book Summaries *Key Verses *Life Applications *Life Applications”, p.43, Harvest House Publishers

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• 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

  Prayer, Simple, Praying

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.35, SCM Press

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• In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Why Not, Want

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• Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.

  Steven J Lawson

  Thunder, Luther, Theology

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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

  Men, Fellow Man, Chapters

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

  Martin Luther

  Littles

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

  Matt Redman

  Bored, Sound, Intensity

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2011

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Worship Music, Delight, Praise God

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

  Dorothy Day

  Coffee, Reading, Cups

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• 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

  Prayer, Adversity, Talking

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Saint, Conversations With God, Feels

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• The Psalms are much more than poetry. Many of them bear the title, Maskil, or teaching psalm. They are thus intended to instruct the mind as well as to encourage the heart. They are designed not only to reflect a mood, but to show us also how to handle that mood; how to escape from depression or how to balance exaltation with wisdom.

  Ray Stedman

  Teaching, Heart, Mind

  Ray C. Stedman (1973). “Folk Psalms of Faith”, Regal Books

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• 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

  Greatness, Literature, Kingdoms

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• The Psalter is the prayer book of Jesus Christ in the truest sense of the word. He prayed the Psalter and now it has become his prayer for all time...we understand how the Psalter can be prayer to God and yet God's own Word, precisely because here we encounter the praying Christ...because those who pray the psalms are joining in with the prayer of Jesus Christ, their prayer reaches the ears of God. Christ has become their intercessor.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Book

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• Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Bible, Gratitude, Powerful

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, Children, Ocean

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Wings, Singing

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.5091, Bible Study Steps

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

  Jeremy Taylor

  Gratitude, Book, Giving

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• A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Prayer, Order, People

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.141, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

  Jim Butcher

  Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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• 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

  Gratitude, Prayer, Benefits

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.12, Kregel Academic

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

  Lynn Austin

  Book, Joy, Defense

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• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Strong, People

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• As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Son, Sheep, Shepherds

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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