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...

Summary

This quote highlights the tendency of human beings to prioritize dissatisfaction and ingratitude over appreciation. It suggests that instead of using our hearts to express gratitude and our minds to think logically, we often use our hearts to dwell on what we wish had been different in the world, and our minds to justify our lack of gratitude. It argues that this discontentment leads us to seek salvation from our dissatisfaction, rather than embracing gratitude as a means of finding contentment and fulfillment.

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