Quotes about Murmuring
O Lord, save us from the murmuring spirit which with the majority of us is merely skin deep, but it is harmful, hurting the bloom of spiritual communion. Keep our life hid with Christ in God.
- Oswald Chambers
Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was kindled, and fire from the LORD blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
- Numbers 11:1
and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
- Numbers 21:5
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
- Lamentations 3:62
Through the open window the voice of the beauty of the world came murmuring, too softly to hear exactly what it said — but what mattered if the meaning were plain?
- Virginia Woolf
The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the outskirts of the
- Charles Dickens
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
- Jeremiah Burroughs
The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.
- DH Lawrence
There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. It is manifest in so many ways, such as faultfinding, gossiping, backbiting, and murmuring, living beyond our means, envying, coveting, withholding gratitude and praise that might lift another, and being unforgiving and jealous.
- Ezra Taft Benson
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
S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.
- Samuel Rutherford
When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.
- AW Pink