Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes About Psalms

Quotes about: Psalms

• 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

• If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

• 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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