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“The only way to understand the “Psalms” is on your knees, the whole congregation praying the words of the Psalms with all its strength.” 


“The Book of Psalms therefore as it contains these real feelings of the saints is a book so universally adapted and useful to all Christians that whatever one that truly fears God may be suffering or under what temptation soever he may be he may find in the Psalms feelings and expressions exactly suited to his case just as much so as if the Psalms had been indited and composed from his own personal afflictions”

“The Psalms are prayers worked into the soil of our lives to shape our imaginations and obedience so that we live our lives congruent with the way God works in the world and in us, works in a world of violence and antipathy without becoming violent.”


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