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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

The Dangers of Complaining

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

St. Paul tells us, “Do everything without grumbling,” but even the best-intentioned Christians can fall into a toxic habit of constant complaining. It’s true that sometimes, sharing a complaint can help rectify an unjust situation or call attention to something that needs to change. But when you start fixating on the negative things around you and voicing your critiques or grievances about everything in your life, you imprison yourself in your own personal hell.

Today, Fr. Mike encourages us to ask for God’s grace to break free from the habit of complaining.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Question, is it possible to lose your soul through complaining?

0:04.6

You know, through whining.

0:05.8

Is it possible to go to hell for whining

0:08.6

or it's possible to go to hell for complaining?

0:11.0

How many of its father Mike Schmitts

0:21.4

and this is essential reasons?

0:22.6

A lot of times we think that what would cost us our soul

0:26.1

are only the really, really big things,

0:27.7

or only the massive sins that would be like grave sins

0:31.4

or mortal sins, and in some sense that would be the case.

0:34.0

But is it possible for there to be small things

0:37.0

that we hold on to so fully that they begin to hold on to us?

0:40.5

And I think that complaining or grumbling or whining,

0:43.2

I guess, is a great example.

0:45.2

Here's why.

0:47.3

Because I think it's, well, in St. Paul's Clarity to the Philippians,

0:50.1

he says, do everything without grumbling or complaining.

0:52.2

Now he doesn't say that if you do complain,

0:54.0

if you do grumble, then you're going to hell.

0:56.4

That kind of thing. He doesn't say that.

0:58.9

But it indicates that there is something in grumbling.

1:03.0

There's something in complaining.

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