Murmuring and discontentedness is too much in the weakest, yet we can bear it sometimes in children and women who are weak, but for those who are men, men of understanding, who have wisdom, whom God employs in public service, that they should be discontented with everything, is an exceedingly great evil. For men, to whom God has given gifts and wisdom, when things fall out amiss in their families, to be always murmuring and repining, is a greater sin than for women and children to do it.
-Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment, 178.
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