The Hellish Sin of Discontent

by Thomas Boston

• “For discontent is presupposed to coveting, and there could be no coveting of what we want without discontent with what we have.”
• “Thus, our own dark minds are the anvil on which our miseries are beat out into greater breadth and length than they are when they come out of the hand of God, to the end that they may cover our hearts with discontent. Happy is the man that can take up his cross as God lays it down without adding more to it.”
• “The devil is the proudest creature and withal the most discontented, for pride and discontent always lodge under one roof.”
• Faith kills discontent, whereas unbelief nourishes and cherishes it.
• Let a man have what he will, he enjoys no more than what he has contentment with.
• Discontent is the noted rebel in the kingdom of providence. God, who created the world, vindicates the government of it to Himself alone. But the discontented go about to wrest the reins of government out of His hand.
• Take Christ in the room of whatever you lack or lies on you that discontents you.
• Thankfulness is the sovereign cure for discontent.
• He that believes that he deserves in himself to lose the presence of God forever will lay his hand on his mouth under temporal losses.