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Modesty Quotes

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PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY, DEC. 8, 1995 "Even if they are socially acceptable, some habits of speech & dress are not		morally correct & represent a way of trivializing sexuality, reducing it to a consumer object. Parents should therefore teach their children the value of Christian modesty, moderate dress & when it cmes to trends, the necessary autonomy."

1 COR 6:19-20 "Surely you know that your bodies are the shrines of the Holy Spirit, Who dwells in you. And He is God's gift to		you, so that you are no longer your own masters. A great price was paid to ransom you; glorify God by making your bodies shrines of His presence."

FR. WILLIAM C. BREDA, OSA "Our clothes are first & most of all the symbols of our state of life & of our social dignity. In the		manner in which we dress & present ourselves, we express our masulinity & femininity...we manifest our beliefs & convictions & we also proclaim our designs & intentions & denote our tastes & tendencies..."

POPE PIUS XII "It is often said almost with passive resignation that fashions reflect the customs of a people. But it would be		more exact & much more useful to say that they express the decision & moral direction that a nation intends to take: either to be shipwrecked in licentiousness or maintain itself at the level to which it has been raised by religion & civilization."

OUR LADY OF FATIMA		"Those who serve God should not follow the fashions."

POPE PIUS XII, JULY 17, 1954 "O Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress & peril, of shame ill-restrained,		that you prepare for your sons & daughters in imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed & in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves & of the harm done the little ones whom Heaven entrusted to your care..."

OUR LADY OF FATIMA TO JACINTA		"Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend our Lord very much."

ST. BERNARD		How beautiful then is modesty and what a gem among virtues it is.

ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM		You carry your snare everywhere & spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not...by your words, but you have done so by your dress...When you have made another sin in his heart, how can you be innocent?...

1 TIMOTHY 2:9-10		"Women must adorn themselves properly. They should dress with modesty & sobriety...as it becomes women professing godliness, with good deeds as their adornment."

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH #2521-22		Purity requires modesty...Modesty protects the intimate center of the person. It means refusing to unveil what should remain hidden. It is ordered to chastity...Modesty protects the mystery of persons & their love...Modesty is decency...