[The most valuable thing the () Psalms do for me] is [to express that same delight in God //which made David dance].
I am not saying that this is so pure or profound a thing /as the love of God /reached by the greatest Christian saints and mystics.
But I am not comparing it /with that, I am comparing it /with the merely dutiful ‘church-going’
and laborious ‘saying our prayers’ //to which most of us are, thank God not always, but often, reduced.
Against that it stands out /as something astonishingly robust, virile, and spontaneous;
something () we may regard /with an innocent envy and may hope to be infected by /as we read.
From Reflections on the Psalms