33 Quotes About Psalms

The Psalms are a school of prayer in which we can learn to gather our troubles, fears, inadequacies, and needs and take them to the One who loves us. With confidence, we can cry with the psalmist, "O Lord, make haste to help me!

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

This is in line with what the Yalkut notes: when King David finished composing the Book of Psalms, he boasted to the Holy One, blessed be He, "Master of the Universe! Is there anything in the world that lifts up its voice in song like me?"—upon which a frog appeared before him and said, "Do not be so proud of yourself. I sing more than you do.

When we are in the darkness, we begin to feel like we have always been there. But it is not true. David reminds himself that God has been faithful in the past; God will be faithful again. He urges himself to put his hope in God because the morning will come.

She told me she'd chosen something for the headstone, part of a verse from Psalm eighty-four- 'Yea, the sparrow hath found an house.' I never got to see it; the headstone was being engraved.""'And the swallow a nest for herself.' That was one of my mother's favorite psalms," he said.

If we don’t live for him, we end up fighting God himself.

David's isn't an ideal life but an actual life.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,Your Maker's praises spout;Up from the sands ye codlings peep,And wag your tails about