C.S. Lewis brings to his reflections on the Psalms - one of the most widely read and loved books of the Bible - the gifts of wisdom, sophistication, and reverence that readers of his unusual religious books have come to expect. He thinks aloud not only about the Psalms - their style and meaning - but also about their relevance for contemporary life. Do we connive at evil by the collaboration of silence? Do we oppress the poor by allowing loopholes in the law for the favored? Do we become insufferable when we have been unjustly treated ("...to be wronged does not commonly make people amiable")? He warns of the temptations of fanaticism in the dedicated ("Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst") and of the dangers of belief in immortality. One of his most interesting discussions considers the nature of prophecy and the interrelation of the Greek and Roman philosophers and the Old and New Testament. His rare, illuminating intelligence discovers in the Psalms truth in paradox, joy in despair, possibilities in limitations. These are the intimate reflections of a mind in constant pursuit of what is good, of a receptive and reverent spirit.