Quotes about Complaint

When they did, she wore a dress, but she grumbled the whole time.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Looking for justice is actually a sign that we have been diverted from our devotion to Him. Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it. If we look for justice, we will only begin to complain and to indulge ourselves in the discontent of self-pity, as if to say, "Why should I be treated like this?

If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.

praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.

Tomorrow there is a good possibility that complaint will be on your lips, and when it is, cry out for your Savior's help. He alone can open your eyes to his glory. His grace alone can satisfy your heart. And as you cry out, remember that he is so rich in grace that he will never turn a deaf ear to your cries.

If complaint has the power to focus your vision, it can also twist and bend your perception of reality and the God who rules it.

the way to defeat the dangerous potential of complaint is not by silence but by praise. The more you commit yourself to counting your blessings, the more you will have eyes to see specific blessings in your life.

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!

Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, “Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly.”