Daphne Gottlieb

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

American Poet

Corita Kent

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

American Artist

Meir Soloveichik

Throughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.

American Clergyman

Gloria Gaither

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

American Musician

Ezra Taft Benson

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

American Leader

Billy Graham

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.

Allen Johnson

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.

American Athlete

David K. Shipler

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

American Author

Johannes Tauler

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

German Theologian

Dominique Jackson

I had a regiment of psalms that I said each day.

Actress

Used primarily in religious ceremonies and worship settings.

Worship Context

While common in Christianity, psalms are also present in other religious traditions.

Not Just Christian

Psalms are often poetic, with rhythmic and metered verses.

Poetic Form

Refers to the entire collection of psalms in the Bible.

Biblical Collection

Considered an ancient text with cultural and historical significance.

Historical Text

Often quoted in sermons, literature, and speeches for inspiration.

Quotation Source

 I want you to spread the fame of my name through every land, I want you to give me power. I want you to make me famous, I want you to give me influence." And it just sounds like the most egotistical request you could make, if you were going to pray. Until you read the whole psalm, the whole chapter.

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 a book of psalms and prayers commissioned by Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, shows a young woman having her hair done, while a young man catches a bird in a net. The shaved patch on his head is growing out, indicating that he is a clergyman neglecting his duties. This alludes to a family scandal

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 literally digging not through soil but through rotten flesh six and eight feet deep what you forget about their war is two things and this is why the books called into the silence the noise Napoleon fired twenty thousand shells at Waterloo at the psalm the British had