Quotes about Discontent

God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-moment dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians who have come to terms with their inadequacies, fears, and failures. Believers who have become discontent with 'surviving' and have taken the time to investigate everything God has to offer in this life.

The vanity and insatiability of the human heart are unspeakable. What a man has does not please him; what he does not have, that he yearns for.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

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?

Discontent is good if it makes you long for home, but bad if it makes you doubt the One who prepares a place for you in his home.

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”

Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still not satisfied.

Jonah, however, was greatly displeased, and he became angry.