Quotes about Scrutiny

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

The humane position, and the biblical position, is that individuals are under no obligation to affirm as true something they have not adequately examined. Moreover, if after careful examination, a claim is falsified by the evidence, it should be rejected.

There is no heaven that has a little corner of hell in it. God is determined to make you pure, holy, and right, and He will not allow you to escape from the scrutiny of the Holy Spirit for even one moment.

Never tolerate, because of sympathy for yourself or for others, any practice that is not in keeping with a holy God. Holiness means absolute purity of your walk before God, the words coming from your mouth, and every thought in your mind—placing every detail of your life under the scrutiny of God Himself. Holiness is not simply what God gives me, but what God has given me that is being exhibited in my life.

Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

But He kept looking around to see who had done this.

This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.

The Gospel can stand up to scrutiny.

My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child—wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.