Quotes about Suspicion

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious; and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world.

a hermeneutics of suspicion is radically reductionistic. It simply abandons the question of truth, reducing it to questions of power and desire.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!

and if a feeling of jealousy comes over her husband and he suspects his wife who has defiled herself—or if a feeling of jealousy comes over him and he suspects her even though she has not defiled herself—

or when a feeling of jealousy comes over a husband and he suspects his wife. He is to have the woman stand before the LORD, and the priest is to apply to her this entire law.

And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”

Surely you realize that Abner son of Ner came to deceive you and to track your movements and all that you are doing.”