Quotes about Psalms
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
— Psalm 88:7
May my cry come before You, O LORD; give me understanding according to Your word.
— Psalm 119:169
O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
— Psalm 139:19
A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
— Psalm 141:1
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
— Psalm 149:3
For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
— Luke 20:42
Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
— Luke 24:44
“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’
— Acts 1:20
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
— Colossians 3:16
Nourish it with good works, give it peace in solitude, get it strength in prayer, make it wise with reading, enlighten it by meditation, make it tender with love, sweeten it with humility, humble it with penance, enliven it with psalms and hymns, and comfort it with frequent reflections upon future glory.
— William Law
That divine presence explains the joy the Jews felt so passionately when they went to their temple and which we find expressed in their Psalms. If we don't have as much joy in our churches as they had, it can only be because we don't have as much faith and love toward that divine presence as they had. And yet we have the presence of the same God in an even more complete and more concrete form in Christ, who is God incarnate, fully divine and fully human.
— Peter Kreeft
Oswald Chambers once said that the Psalms teach you how to pray; Job teaches you how to suffer; the Song of Solomon teaches you how to love; Proverbs teaches you how to live; and Ecclesiastes teaches you how to enjoy.
— Philip Yancey