Quotes about Discontent

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

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

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.

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

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

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?

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

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!”