God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...Douglas Wilson
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I think this quote is about how people say that they need God to help them, but then they have no love for God because of that. They are constantly complaining to Him, saying that they don't have enough time to spend with Him, but not giving Him the respect He deserves because of it. Instead of thanking Him, they think it's okay to judge Him for letting bad things happen to them. Essentially, this person thinks God is stupid for letting bad things happen to them, so they are complaining about it, because their minds can't think of a way around it or come up with a rationalization for why it's okay that bad things happen to them.
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