Notes
Chapter 1: Discipleship
1. The Book of Common Prayer (New York: Church Pension Fund, 1945), p. 276.

2. Amos T. Wilder writes, “World means more than ‘mankind fallen away from God.’ . . . The world is created and loved by God, and Christ has come to save it. But it is ephemeral, subject to decay and death; moreover, it has fallen under the control of the evil one, and therefore into darkness.” In The Interpreter’s Bible, ed. George Arthur Buttrick (Nashville: Abingdon, 1952), 12:238.

3. Gore Vidal, Matters of Fact and Fiction (New York: Random House, 1977), p. 86.

4. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. Helen Zimmern (London: 1907), sec. 188.

5. There is no independent documentation that the Psalms of Ascents were used thus, and therefore no consensus among scholars that they were associated with the pilgrimage journeys to Jerusalem. The connection is conjectural but not at all fanciful. Commentators both Jewish and Christian have interpreted these psalms in this framework.

6. Paul Tournier, A Place for You (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), p. 163.

7. Thomas Szasz, Schizophrenia, the Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1978), p. 72.

8. Paul Goodman, Little Prayers and Finite Experience (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), p. 16.

9. William Faulkner, quoted in Sam di Bonaventura’s program notes to Elie Siegmeister’s Symphony no. 5, Baltimore Symphony Concert, May 5, 1977.


Chapter 2: Repentance
1. John Baillie, Invitation to Pilgrimage (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1942), p. 8.

2. Elie Wiesel, Souls on Fire (New York: Vintage, 1973), p. 154.

3. Abraham Heschel, The Prophets (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), pp. 71-72.

4. Ibid., p. 190.


Chapter 3: Providence
1. John Calvin, Commentary on the Psalms (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1949), 5:63.

2. Johannes Pedersen describes the situation thus: “The sun and the moon, which meant so much for the maintenance of order in life, often became independent gods among the neighboring peoples or became part of the nature of other gods. Job expressly denies having kissed his hand to these mighty beings (‘ . . . if I have looked at the sun when it shone, or the moon moving in splendor, and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand; this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judgment, for I should have been false to God above’). And in a judgment prophecy it is said that Yahweh will visit all the host of heaven on high, and the kings on earth, and the sun and the moon shall be put to shame, when Yahweh shall reign in Zion (‘Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed; for the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem.’ Isaiah 24:33).” Israel: Its Life and Culture (London: Oxford University Press, 1926), p. 635.

3. There are, of course, numerous instances when hills and mountains are used as a metaphor for the strength and majesty of God—for instance, Psalms 3:4, 24:3, 43:3, 48:1.


Chapter 4: Worship
1. Paul Scherer, The Word God Sent (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), p. 166.

2. Herbert Hendin, The Age of Sensation (New York: W. W. Norton, 1975), p. 325.

3. Charles Spurgeon, quoted in Helmut Thielicke, Encounter with Spurgeon (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963), p. 11.


Chapter 5: Service
1. Walther Zimmerli, “?????,” in Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1974), 9:377.


Chapter 6: Help
1. Robert Browning, “Easter Day,” in The Poems and Plays of Robert Browning (New York: Random House, 1934), p. 503.


Chapter 7: Security
1. George Adam Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land (London: Collins, 1966), p. 178.

2. Gilbert Highet, Man’s Unconquerable Mind (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954), p. 24.

3. Alexander Maclaren, The Psalms (New York: A. C. Armstrong, 1908), 2:316.

4. Mitchell Dahood translates: “But those tottering for their devious ways . . .” By repointing the Hebrew consonants he finds the psalmist using the same word as in verse 1 (mwt) and so contrasting the one who trusts in God and is a rock-solid mountain that can’t be moved with the one who refused to trust in God and therefore slips and “totters”—backslides. Psalms III (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1970), p. 214.

5. Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1950), 6:59.


Chapter 8: Joy
1. Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1954), p. 15.

2. Phyllis McGinley, Saint-Watching (New York: Viking, 1969), pp. 13-14.

3. Elie Wiesel, Souls on Fire (New York: Vintage, 1973), p. 100.


Chapter 9: Work
1. Hilary of Poitiers, quoted in G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, The Word and the Work (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965), p. 33.


Chapter 10: Happiness
1. Two Hebrew words are translated “blessed” in this psalm. The word used in verses 1-2 (’ashre) describes the sense of happiness and wholeness that comes from living in good relationship with God. The word used in verses 4-5 (barak) describes what God does as he shares his abundant life with us in a relationship of salvation.

2. F. Hauck, “µa??????,” in Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1967), 4:369.

3. Johannes Pedersen, Israel: Its Life and Culture (London: Oxford University Press, 1926), pp. 182-99.

4. Ibid., pp. 193, 211.

5. John Calvin, Commentary on the Psalms (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1949), 5:115.

6. Austin Farrer, The Brink of Mystery (London: SPCK, 1976), p. 52.

7. John Henry Newman, The Preaching of John Henry Newman, ed. W. D. White (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969), p. 77.


Chapter 11: Perseverance
1. H. Cremer, quoted in Gerhard von Rad, Theology of the Old Testament (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 1:371.


Chapter 12: Hope
1. Sally Cunneen, “Listening to Illich,” The Christian Century, September 29, 1976.

2. P. T. Forsyth, The Cure of Souls (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1971), p. 128.

3. Gerhard von Rad, Theology of the Old Testament (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), 1:384.

4. Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer (New York: Doubleday, 1972), p. 95.

5. George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, First Series, quoted in frontispiece of C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1953).

6. Forsyth, Cure of Souls, p. 113.

7. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics 3/1 (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1957), p. 369.

8. George MacDonald, quoted in Denis Donogue, New York Review of Books, December 21, 1967.

9. Augustine, The City of God (New York: Doubleday, 1958), p. 46.


Chapter 13: Humility
1. G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (New York: John Lane, 1909), p. 212.

2. John Calvin, Commentary on the Psalms (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1949), 5:140.

3. Artur Weiser, The Psalms (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1962), p. 777.

4. Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1950), 6:137.

5. Ibid., p. 136.

6. Peter Marin in Saturday Review of Literature, September 19, 1970, p. 73


Chapter 14: Obedience
1. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics 4/3, 2nd half (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1957), p. 670.


Chapter 15: Community
1. Philip Slater, in his searching study of the way Americans live together, says that all of us have a desire and need for community—“the wish to live in trust and fraternal cooperation with one’s fellows in a total and visible collective entity. It is easy to produce examples of the many ways in which Americans attempt to minimize, circumvent, or deny the interdependence upon which all human societies are based. We seek a private house, a private means of transportation, a private garden, a private laundry, self-service stores, and do-it-yourself skills of every kind. An enormous technology seems to have set itself the task of making it unnecessary for one human being ever to ask anything of another in the course of going about his daily business . . . . We seek more and more privacy, and feel more alienated and lonely when we get it . . . . Our encounters with others tend increasingly to be competitive as a result of the search for privacy. We less and less often meet our fellow man to share and exchange, and more and more often encounter him as an impediment or a nuisance: making the highway crowded when we are rushing somewhere, cluttering and littering the beach or park or wood, pushing in front of us at the supermarket, taking the last parking place, polluting our air and water, building a highway through our house, blocking our view, and so on. Because we have cut off so much communication with each other we keep bumping into each other, and thus a higher and higher percentage of our interpersonal contacts are abrasive.” Pursuit of Loneliness (Boston: Beacon, 1970), pp. 7-8.

2. Martin Buber, I and Thou (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970), p. 62.

3. Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Baltimore: Penguin, 1953), p. 27.

4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954), p. 25.

5. Ibid., p. 23.

6. Margaret Mead, Culture and Commitment (Garden City, N.J.: Natural History Press/Doubleday, 1970), p. 17.

7. Mary Bosenquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (New York: Harper & Row, 1968), pp. 15-16.


Chapter 16: Blessing
1. Charles Colson, Born Again (New York: Bantam, 1976), p. 10.

2. lbid., p. 7.

3. J. Y. Campbell, “Blessedness,” in Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, ed. George Arthur Buttrick (Nashville: Abingdon, 1962), 1:445.

4. Johannes Pedersen, Israel: Its Life and Culture (London: Oxford University Press, 1926), p. 202.

5. W. J. Harrelson, “Blessings and Cursings,” in Interpreter’s Dictionary, 1:446.

6. B. Duhm, Das Buch Hiob (1897), p. 12, quoted in Hermann W. Beyer, “e??e???,” in Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. Gerhard Kittel and Gerhard Friedrich (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964), 2:758.

7. lbid., p. 760.

8. John Calvin, Commentary on the Psalms (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1949), p. 168.

9. Eric Routley, Ascent to the Cross (London: SCM Press, 1962), p. 72.

10. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics 2/1 (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1957), p. 656.

11. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (reprint, New York: Heritage, 1939), p. 198.

12. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics 4/1 (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1956), p. 4.

13. John Henry Newman, The Preaching of John Henry Newman, ed. W. D. White (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1969), p. 211.





