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You can talk about your Psalms and your John 3:16. Well, Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your *ss.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
You can expound on your scriptures and spiritual discourse. Well, Austin 3:16 proclaims I just trounced you soundly.
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Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.
Martin Luther
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Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.
Charles Spurgeon
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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.
Billy Graham
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The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
C. S. Lewis
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I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms.
Matt Redman
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Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.
Steven J Lawson
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
R. C. Sproul
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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.
Johannes Tauler
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The prophets and the writers of the Psalms were clear that God was continuing to work in the universe and in all history. They declared that He had created the universe.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
Emma Lazarus
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The Psalms are the voices of the church.
Ambrose
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[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended.
Martin Luther
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I am Psmith," said the old Etonian reverently. "There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb. Compare such words as ptarmigan, psalm, and phthisis.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.
Richard Steele
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The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
Elsa Maxwell
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I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Reverend Malcolm Boyd
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The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.
John Donne
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The psalm (Psalm 56) hints at the recognition that fear and trust may coexist. The life of faith is then one in which we live in trust even if we also know fear. Perhaps, indeed, trust only exists in the presence of fear.
John Goldingay
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If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.
Jim George