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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

You say, ‘The country is messed up.’ That’s like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you’ve got. Don’t curse all you’ve got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you’ve got to take like it comes.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

It’s not a question of God ‘sending’ us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.

We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.

What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud – a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,–persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

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.

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.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic. This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of faultfinding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.

You’re so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what’s wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what’s good.

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).

Hope discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief’s that may beset us.

It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

Grumbling, as things are at present arranged in this world, does not always, nor I might say often, do good.

Grumbling is the death of love

I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat – in honor of my father – when I’m impatient. It’s very charming.

Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

Holy Father, forgive me for grumbling. I know I’ve sounded just like the Israelites. I long to dwell not on the If Onlys but on You. Make me wise like the old woodcutter – content with what I know, not perturbed by what I don’t know.