"Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God. Worship is the time and place that we assign for deliberate attentiveness to God—not because he’s confined to time and place but because our self-importance is so insidiously relentless that if we don’t deliberately interrupt ourselves regularly, we have no chance of attending to him at all at other times and in other places." – Eugene Peterson, Leap Over a Wall

"I must read them as an 'over-the-shoulder' reader since the intended audience was not other people, but God." – Philip Yancey

"By itself, Psalm 23 leads to an easy-answer faith; by itself Psalm 22 leads to spiritual despair; together, the two offer a bracing mixture of realism and hope." – Philip Yancey

The Psalms invite me to include God in all of my life and all of my emotional experiences.

When we don’t know what to pray, the Psalms give us the words we need.

The Psalms invite us to let God into every area of our life.

The Psalms show me that life with God is more like a roller coaster than a lazy river, and that my job is to keep seeking and trusting God.