A Complaint (n.) once begun soon finds the true expression insufficient to move the hearer, and without knowing it stealthily interjects untruth — so too with devotion expressed directly.
A Complaint (n.) is the order shouted at a waiter who may not hear, to a cook who may not care, for a cut that may not exist — so one stops shouting.
Complaint (n.) about suffering is easily understood by people, even those with no comfort to give; eternity refuses to understand it that way, and only eternity can help.
Complaint (n.) grows violent out of the belief that one's suffering is so great it must ring through heaven and drag God out of his indifference.
A Complaint (n.) to God is no impiety: the Lord has no fear of complaints — but how can he defend himself when no one dares to complain? Speak loudly; God has thunder.