Quotes about Complaints
A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day. Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands.
- Proverbs 27:15-16
Too often the church complains about culture instead of creating it. The energy we spend on criticism is being stolen from creativity. It's sideways energy. We need fewer commentators and more innovators.
- Mark Batterson
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
- Samuel Johnson
If God were human, how sick and tired He would be of the constant requests we make for our salvation and for our sanctification. We burden His energies from morning till night asking for things for ourselves or for something from which we want to be delivered! When we finally touch the underlying foundation of the reality of the gospel of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.
- Oswald Chambers
A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus. Never try to make your experience a principle for others, but allow God to be as creative and original with others as He is with you.
- Oswald Chambers
If you believe in God and his control over everything that exists, then you have to accept that all of your grumbling is ultimately grumbling against him.
- Paul David Tripp
We complain so much not because we have horizontal problems but because we have a vertical problem.
- Paul David Tripp
there's no such things as a purely horizontal complaint. If I am complaining about the insensitivity of my physician, the lack of attention I am getting from my pastor, and the fact that my friends lack sympathy and understanding, I'm not just complaining about those people but also about the God who ordained all of them to be in my life.
- Paul David Tripp
Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.
- Paul David Tripp
Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:1
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- Numbers 11:13
“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
- Numbers 14:27