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THE PSALMS In no other writings, whether sacred or secular, are the heart and soul of man more clearly revealed than in the Psalms. The sighs, sobs, and songs buried deeply within human spirits find their release and utter their message

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THE PSALMS

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“In no other writings, whether sacred or secular, are the heart and soul of man more clearly revealed than in the

  • Psalms. The sighs, sobs, and songs

buried deeply within human spirits find their release and utter their message through these 150 Psalms. They review the past, view the present, and preview the future…

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…Nearly half of all the direct quotes taken from the Old Testament and quoted in the New Testament come from the

  • Psalms. In fact, the book of Psalms is

either quoted from or alluded to 103 times in the book of Revelation alone, and 149 times in the four Gospel accounts.” Harold Wilmington

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PSALM 1

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‘ESHER

HAPPINESS, BLESSEDNESS, FILLED WITH JOY

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MATTHEW 12:30

”Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”

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HALAK ETSAH RASHA’

DOES NOT WALK IN THE COUNSEL OF THE WICKED

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HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE

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PSALM 119:11

“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you”

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PSALM 119:5, 17:4

“I have followed your commands, which keep me from following cruel and evil people.” “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”

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CHARLES SPURGEON

“Not a wild tree, but a tree planted, chosen, considered property, cultivated, and secured from the last terrible uprooting”

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HAPPINESS IS NOT FOUND IN SUPERFICIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

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BLAISE PASCAL (PENSEES 148)

"What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace?

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BLAISE PASCAL (PENSEES 148)

This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are,

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BLAISE PASCAL (PENSEES 148)

…though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself”

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Eric Samuel Timm

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ECCLESIASTES 2:17-19

“So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind…

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ECCLESIASTES 2:17-19

I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool?”

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“Happiness never consists in what happens to you but what you are”

TIMOTHY KELLER

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HAPPINESS IS A BYPRODUCT OF SOMETHING LARGER THAN ITSELF

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PSALM 1:5-6

“Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.”

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JOHN 14:6

“I am the way the Truth and the life, no one comes to the father except through me.”

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