Psalmists Quotes & Sayings

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. — C.S. Lewis

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it ... — Steven Erikson

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. — Anne Lamott

I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that. It's been working for me, so I'd be cool with that. — Meek Mill

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? — Eugene H. Peterson

The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added power now. As a kid, the psalmist (or psalmists) had seemed remote to me, the Psalms long prayers which sometimes rose to great poetry but often had simply to be endured. For a middle-aged man, the psalmists' moods and feelings came alive. One of the voices sounded a lot like a modern New Yorker, me or people I knew: a manic-depressive type A personality sometimes up, more often down, sometimes resigned, more often pissed off, railing about his sneaky enemies and feckless friends, always bitching to the Lord about the rotten hand he'd been dealt. That good old changelessness. — Tony Hendra

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct. — David Bronstein

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment ... "You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play". — Andrew Solomon

Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you. — Israelmore Ayivor

The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten. — Sharon Cameron

God is running the universe. We ought not think like scientists, but think like psalmists. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself. — Mark Ruffalo

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian. — George Carlin