Quotes about Psalms

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

An Israelite could not have sung the familiar song 'God is so good, God is so good, God is so good, he's so good to me' (though the words echo the Psalms) without being reminded also of its ethical consequence: 'God asks me to show that goodness to others.

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

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

We have discovered in these psalms beautiful lines, piercing insights, dazzling truths, stimulating words. We have found that the world in which these psalms are sung is a world of adventure and challenge, of ardor and meaning. We have realized that while there are certainly difficulties in the way of faith, it cannot by any stretch of the imagination be called dull.

There is no literature in all the world that is more true to life and more honest than Psalms, for here we have warts-and-all religion. Every skeptical thought, every disappointing venture, every pain, every despair that we can face is lived through and integrated into a personal, saving relationship with God—a relationship that also has in it acts of praise, blessing, peace, security, trust and love.

Oh, give thanks to the LORD! Call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples! Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; talk of all His wondrous works! 1 Chronicles 16:8—9

The Psalms could be titled God's Book of Common Prayer.

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive, abundant in faithful love to all who call on You. Psalm 86:5

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.

The Book of Psalms is the Bible's hymnbook. It will show you what it means to walk with God in prayer and praise.

Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others.