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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Complaining is an insult to God.
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.
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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.
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.
Once you're in the presence of people who have put their lives actively on the line, repeatedly, you're never allowed to complain again. And I do, and we all do. But now I look at things a little differently.
It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.