Quotes About Psalter

#1. Whenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure is lost to the Christian church. With its recovery will come unexpected power.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#2. There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

Anton Chekhov

#3. The Psalter, then, affirms both the communion-seeking and kingdom-seeking kinds of prayer.

Timothy Keller

#4. Knox's daily devotional routine was built around the Psalms, and throughout his life he followed the liturgical practice, acquired as a child in Haddington's church, of moving through the entire psalter every month.

Jane Dawson

#5. What is the historical context in which the Psalter was compiled? What difference do the psalm titles make to canonical interpretation? How does the total canonical context affect our understanding and appropriation of the Psalms?

Anonymous

#6. The Psalter forms the great epic poem of the creator and covenant God who will at the last visit and redeem his people and, with them, his whole creation.

N. T. Wright

#7. The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened that book, I was like, whoa! Word party!

The Harvard Lampoon

#9. The liver is evil and must be punished.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one's thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#11. As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.

Edward Young

#12. You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

#13. You'll stay, won't you?" Maddy asked Pilar.
"Yes, if you want."
"I think you should stay." Since Theo had grabbed the bags, she clomped off after him in her funky
new shoes.

Nora Roberts

#14. For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Mary Webb

#15. Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

Peter Drucker

#16. Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

Nell Freudenberger

#17. Lincoln again got his name prominently mentioned in the New York Tribune, though this time it was for allegedly pumping up his expense account.

Harold Holzer

#18. I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Richard Dawkins

#19. Prince Ahmad crouched over the headless body, the scout at his side. "you say a mere priest bested you?"
"He weilded his sword like a master. I never saw such a display."
The prince mocked the soldier. "Then let us pray we don't meet the Pope.

Galen Watson

#20. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.

Seth Godin

#21. The boat is very close now, its noises filling the air along with the smell of fuel. Mark can see the faint shadow of two people behind the darkened window

James Dashner