5/10/15
Chris Breslin
Psalm 139
“We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment…It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.”–C.S. Lewis
“Praying the psalms teaches us to pray as a community…the deeper we penetrate into the Psalms and the more often we ourselves have prayed them, the simpler and richer our own prayer will become.”–Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The Psalms are not only poetry in themselves; they are to be the cause of poetry in those who sing them, together and individually. They are God’s gifts to us so that we can be shaped as his gift to the world.”–N.T. Wright
Further Psalms Reading
The Book of Psalms: A Translation by Robert Alter
Psalms: the Prayerbook of the Bible by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Seeing the Psalms by William Brown
Praying the Psalms by Walter Brueggemann
Reflections on the Psalms by C.S. Lewis
Praying the Psalms by Thomas Merton
Praying With the Psalms by Eugene Peterson
The Case for the Psalms by N.T. Wright
