Quotes About Complaining To God

#1. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Norman Vincent Peale

#2. You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

Joyce Meyer

#3. We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.

Monica Johnson

#4. Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.

Craig Groeschel

#5. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

John Green

#6. The more you complain the longer God lets you live

Bertrand Russell

#7. The thing that you can't control is the very thing God will use to prosper you! Stop complaining!

John P. Kee

#8. God expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part.

Oswald Chambers

#9. The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.'
'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Brennan Manning

#10. If we are filled with anger and bitterness, or insist on complaining and blaming God, things tend to turn out badly.

Stormie O'martian

#11. As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.

Joyce Meyer

#12. Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word about her around me, unless she is their mother too.

Kathryn Stockett

#13. He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!

William Law

#14. Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.

Jerry Bridges

#15. Make this the year you stop complaining about your weaknesses, and instead search for their God-given purpose.

John Piper

#16. Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Joyce Meyer

#17. The secret is this: When you have the single mind, you look on your circumstances as God-given opportunities for the furtherance of the gospel, and you rejoice at what God is going to do instead of complaining about what God did not do.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#18. If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads hanging down like bulrushes, complaining how poor you are; but you would lift up your heads with confidence, and proclaim the riches of His grace because you could not help it.

Dwight L. Moody

#19. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather.

Jerry Bridges

#20. When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

Joyce Meyer

#21. I'm Peter on the mountaintop, stirring to see The Glory in all its God-radiance, stammering out that it's good to be here; let's build shelters and never depart. But there's always the descent from the mount. The meeting of the crowd, the complaining, the cursing. Page 124

Ann Voskamp

#22. Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Joyce Meyer

#23. I imagine that it saddens the heart of God when we murmur and complain, instead of being thankful after He's been so good to us.

Joyce Meyer

#24. God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.

Charles Spurgeon

#25. Complaining is an insult to God.

Monica Johnson

#26. How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough

Colleen Carroll Campbell

#27. To complain is to say in effect; "God, You blew it! You had a chance to meet my expectations, but You couldn't handle it! Nice try, God, close - but not close enough." So complaining definitely injures you and the Lord.

James MacDonald

#28. When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings.

David Jeremiah

#29. When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

Arthur W. Pink

#30. So let me get this straight," Carter said. "The two guys you liked - one who was dying and one who was off-limits because he's a god - are now one guy, who isn't dying and isn't off-limits. And you're complaining.

Rick Riordan

#31. The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you.

Nouman Ali Khan

#32. God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

George Sand

#33. Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

Blaise Pascal

#34. There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Augustine Of Hippo

#35. When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

Joyce Meyer

#36. Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Philip Yancey

#37. There is no sin in complaining to God, but much wickedness in complaining of him.

John Flavel

#38. You limit the power of angels when you speak negative, complaining, unbelieving words instead of speaking what God has declared.

Benny Hinn

#39. When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.

Philip Yancey