Created Naked

“I'm fairly convinced that our current culture's clothing compulsion and obsession is counter to God's design (call it "sin" or "perversion" if you like). I'm not saying everyone should be a nudist, and we should all be naked everywhere. But there is a troubling spirit around the way nudity is treated in modern America - and the Church is probably the worst offender. “ —Name Withheld , Naturist-Christians.org

“Naked you are unencumbered with human decorations and coverings that cover God’s human masterpiece. Naked with others, you will be more aware of being as God sees you, someone He has created in His own image who is not unlike everyone else. You will have to be humble before Him and others.” —Paul M. Bowman, Nakedness & the Bible.

“Nudity is the purest expression of the beauty which is the visible, perfect and manifest work of God.—Alexandre Najjar”

“Furthermore, because God created it, “The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.” – Pope John Paul II

“How is it possible for the human body, which was created in the image of God, to be offensive to anybody? Satan would love to see God’s greatest creation be considered offensive.” —Author Unknown

“Body shame, like prejudice, is not natural. It is learned from others and benefits no one.” —Author Unknown

“When we are ashamed of God’s handiwork, it is really God Himself whom we are setting ourselves up to criticize. Instead of being a mark of piety or reverence, the obscenity superstition is itself the most filthy and brazen insult in which mortal man ever aspired to fling into the face of his Creator.” —Hartman, Fithian, & Johnson 1970, 1991

“Once you remove shame from your body, everything else comes off surprisingly easily.” —Anonymous

“[When] one is nude, your senses are heightened ... You become open to the universe, not only physically, but emotionally, unprotected, unmasked. It may be symbolic of allowing the Divine and the World to see you as you really are.” —Alkemie Jane

“The state of Nakedness increases and demonstrates humility and increases our openness towards our fellow man.” —Phillip Oak, Surprised into Freedom ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7T7WVGL? )

“We find that relaxing with clothes off at Elysium Fields [A Naturist Resort] is a great tension reliever, for ourselves and our kids too.”- Lynn Redgrave, actress

“Many of us may be unaware that nudity is a normal condition that has prevailed throughout most of mankind’s existence.” —Aileen Goodson

“If there had been no fall and clothes had never been invented, we would have no word or concept of "nude". Everyone being nude would never have seemed strange. In a way it is clothes that make us nude. Nudity really is our natural state. Interesting how powerful conditioning is to make being nude seem strange and being clothed normal. I wonder how many other things we are conditioned to that are foriegn to who we are and we dont know it.” —Name Withheld

“I see naturism as "normal." In other words, I do not see it as extraordinary.“ —Funtobenude, naturist-Christian’s.org

“People without clothes are in their natural, default state. It is being clothed that is artificial and alien. I think our souls know it, deep down. We shouldnt even have a knowledge that our naked bodies lack anything. It is part of the fall.”—Name Withheld

“The key to being Naked is not just about taking your clothes off ... It's about seeing, feeling and acknowledging every inch of your skin as a holy temple.” —Stephanie McManus

“In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.” —Horatio Greenough

“Clothes, as crafted objects, are victim to the whims of stylistic fads, but ‘the artifice of Nature [i.e. the naked body] is supreme, no period fashions change it”, as the character of Leonello d’Este said in Angelo Decembrio’s On Literary Polish (c.1462).—Jill Burke, Nakedness and Other Peoples: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude

“When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.” – August Strindberg, playwright, 1849-1912

“I like me better naked. I don’t mean that in a vain way...When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don’t have any clothes on, it’s raw and you can’t hide.” -Parma Lakshmi

“Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?” —Kahlil Gibran

“The convention mis-called “modesty” has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature an reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody’s whim— anybody’s diseased caprice.” —Mark Twain

“A girl in the Pacific islands wearing hardly any clothes and a Victorian lady completely covered in clothes might both be equally 'modest,' proper, or decent… and both, for all we could tell by their dress, might be equally chaste (or equally unchaste).” — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“We have come into the world naked, and all the animals are naked, why should man hide his body behind clothes?” —Osho

“By its very essence, clothing is a cover-up that is a reminder of the naked body underneath.” —Aileen Goodson

“Our clothes … are on us to expose us -- to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.” — Mark Twain, Following the Equator

“Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“Primitive societies have moral values, of course, but since they do not associate shame with genitalia, their social signals tend not to concentrate on those areas.” — Aileen Goodson

“Actually, in light of the Bible, there is no sin in nudity itself; but if a person uses the nudity for lustful or immoral purposes he has misused it, and this constitutes a sin. The Bible does not speak against nudity nor does it teach the body is shameful. There is reference to shame in nudity, but the shame was produced in the mind of man, not by divine ordination.” — Rev. Martin Wadestone, Nudism and Christianity