Discontent Quote by J. I. Packer Download Open image “We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent” — J. I. Packer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discontent Dishonor Ifs Savior
“Discontentment begins when I start trying to be God. Discontentment happens when I attempt to displace God from his rightful place at the center of the universe. When I think that everything should run according to my plans instead of God’s plans. When I forget that God is God and that he is allowed to do with me whatever he… — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share
Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. — Ieyasu Tokugawa Copy Share Image
“God does not consume us in his wrath, but instead he consumes his wrath on himself by becoming our substitute, paying for our sins… — Rich Nathan Copy Share Image
A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
And which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
God does not live in a perpetual state of disappointment over who we are. — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There are few things stressed more strongly in the Bible than the reality of God's work as Judge. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice,… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted. — Alice Dunbar Nelson Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little happy himself. He began to wonder whether he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with his life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid… — François Lelord Copy Share
You can spend your whole life complaining about how much you hate life or you can spend it finding new ways to love it. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the… — Elizabeth I Copy Share
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself. — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
