“ I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fum… Roman Payne
“ All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.Psalm 139:16 S.L. Rubart
“ My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer. Anonymous
“ The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith. Kevin Swanson
“ The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12). Colin S. Smith
“ 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 pow… Tony Hendra
“ As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness. -Psalm 17:15 God
“ To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the then, and the now, and the not yet--is to understand how those emotions are… N.T. Wright
