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There is in the psalms no quick and easy resignation to suffering. There is always struggle, anxiety, and doubt. God’s righteousness, which allows the pious to be met by misfortune but the godless to... -
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[The psalms] become like a mirror to the person singing them, so that he might perceive himself and the emotions of his soul. -
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Under all the circumstances of life, we shall find that these divine songs suit ourselves and meet our own souls’ need at every turn. -
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A psalm drives away demons, summons the help of angels, furnishes arms against nightly terrors, and gives respite from daily toil; to little children it is safety, to men in their prime an adornment, ... -
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To novices it is a beginning; to those who are advancing, an increase; to those who are concluding, a confirmation. -
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By praying the Psalms back to God, we learn to pray in tune with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. -
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The psalmist is brutally honest about the explosive joy that he’s feeling and the deep sorrow or confusion, and it’s that that sets the Psalms apart for me. And I often think, gosh, well, why isn’t ch... -
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The psalmist could not see himself as an individual apart from Israel. His self-identity was bound up in his participation in the community of faith. -
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Most emphatically the Psalms must be read as poems; as lyrics, with all the licenses and all the formalities, the hyperboles, the emotional rather than logical connections, which are proper to lyric p... -
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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. -
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The Psalmist’s “I” accommodates a vast congregation of individuals and groups down the centuries around the world today. They are all somehow embraced in this “I.” A vast array of stories, situations,... -
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A journey through the psalms is the journey of the life of faith. -
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It is not our prayers that interpret the Psalms but the Psalms that interpret our prayers. -
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We must speak honestly—but also wisely. -
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The psalms enable us to bring into our conversation with God feelings and thoughts most of us think we need to get rid of before God will be interested in hearing from us. -
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We often imagine, wrongly, that the psalms are private compositions prayed by a shepherd, traveler, or fugitive. Close study shows that all of them are corporate: all were prayed by and in the communi... -
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The Psalms: they are designed to be prayed. -
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There is not an emotion of which any one can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror. -
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The Psalms make it possible “to say things that are otherwise unsayable. In church, they have the capacity to free us to talk about things that we cannot talk about anywhere else. -
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It is unthinkable that expressing gratitude to God should be a private transaction between individuals and God. Thanksgiving is an inherently public act whereby one gives glory to God in the presence ... -
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If the Psalms have been a source of spiritual instruction and consolation for many seekers, they also have filled others with discomfort and bewilderment. There is an untidiness, a turbulence, an unde... -
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The Book of Psalms is full of heartfelt utterances made during storms of this kind. Where can one find nobler words to express joy than in the Psalms of praise or gratitude? In them you can see into t... -
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The Psalms are inexhaustible, and deserve to be read, said, sung, chanted, whispered, learned by heart, and even shouted from the rooftops. They express all the emotions we are ever likely to feel (in... -
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The psalms illuminate the mind for the purpose of enkindling the soul, indeed to put it to fire. It may indeed be said that the purpose of the Psalms is to turn the soul into a sort of burning bush. -
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[The Psalter] is an articulation of all the secrets of the human heart and the human community, all voiced out loud in speech and in song to God amidst the community. -
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The psalms, then, are for those who know that they spend much of their life hiding secrets; they are also for those who know that standing in the presence of God “is the one place where such secrets c... -
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What happens when we pray the psalms under the light of God’s grace? We become free to pray with abandonment because we have abandoned ourselves to this gracious God. -
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Because they are the devotional poetry of a particular community, the Psalms train us to pray with others who have prayed, and are still praying. They put our knees on the level with other bent knees;... -
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We become whole by praying our honest joys and our honest sorrows. We pray our honest praise of God and our honest anger at God; we pray also for honest speech in our words to God. -
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When we pray the psalms by the empowering and transforming presence of the Holy Spirit, we pray not just who we actually are but also who we can be and shall be by grace.
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