GRUMBLING

See also: Contentment

Don’t grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!

The Bible, James 5:9

And do not grumble, as some of them did – and were killed by the destroying angel.

The Bible, 1 Corinthians 10:10

Some people complain because God put thorns on roses, while others praise Him for putting roses among thorns.

Author unknown

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Edmund Burke

Complain as little as possible of your wrongs, for, as a general rule, you may be sure that complaining is sin: … because self-love always magnifies our injuries.

Francis de Sales

Anyone who complains or grumbles is not perfect, nor even a good Christian.

John of the Cross

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part – sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn’t buy a better grumbling outfit.

J.B. Priestly

Murmuring is wasted breath, and fretting is wasted time.

C.H. Spurgeon

Nothing ousts the sense of God’s presence so thoroughly as the soul’s dialogues with itself – when these are grumblings, grievances, etc.

Friedrich von Hügel