The Psalter Quotes

#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. 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

#5. 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

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. 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

#8. No matter how much we change, it's the woman who has to carry a baby in womb, and the man who has to light the fire

Nikhil Kushwaha

#9. Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.

Douglas Adams

#10. To repeat a prayer-demand over and over again, whether mentally or out loud, with ever-deeper attention and devotion, spiritualizes the prayer; it changes conscious, concentrated repetition into superconscious experience.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. These jokers were not that complicated. Death-by-stupidity was the cause as far as Tiago was concerned.

Thea Harrison

#13. Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

Nelson Mandela

#14. The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power ...

Helen Caldicott

#15. 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

#16. I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.

Jane Green

#17. Billions and billions.

Carl Sagan