Jim C. Cunningham > Quotes

“We all know the feeling of being torn away from those we love most because of sin and guilt.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“Such the Lord calls us to be—naked of finery, naked of vanity, wrenched from our sins, bearing only the wood of life, aiming only at salvation.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“They readily believe that nakedness is not intrinsically connected with godliness, but quite the contrary, is intrinsically connected with sin! So convinced are they of this lie that they preach it as Gospel, when, in fact, it is nowhere to be found in the Gospel.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“The onlooker who yelled out, “Sacrilege!” as the infant before Br. Cyril was baptized, failed to see the mystery of God’s love revealed in the naked body.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“Wouldn’t it be nice to know that clothes are not “us,” but merely tools we utilize for personal comfort, when necessary?”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“They saw their bodies as so pure that they were not ashamed, no matter who might see them, and they regarded their bodies as so pure that they could not understand how any sane person could possibly be “offended” by the sight of them.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“No one and nothing can negate the Gospel truth that your body is more than clothes and more splendid than all of King Solomon’s wardrobe.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“Clothes might make the man according to the ways of the world, but not according to the ways of the Lord.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“I thought it was too bad for the Bedouin women, but I didn’t think they would hold us French girls to the same miserable standard! Why, back home in Bordeaux, boys and girls on the beach wear just le mini-mum—in fact, sometimes even nothing at all—and no one is ever treated this way! They made us feel worse than dirt.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“As I understand it, there is no objective sin in being clothed or unclothed; the virtue or vice of how we dress is dependent on our motives, which we are sure are pure and holy.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“It is interesting to note that after Adam & Eve sinned, they made only loincloths for themselves.1 It seems that they were ashamed only of their loins—not the rest of the bodies.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“We pray that this right-minded, celestial attitude be ours when we pray “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”4 If we are to be holy as He is holy, there is only one right attitude to have toward all created things, including the body: “To the pure, all things are pure.”5”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“The Roman Catholic Church has known nudity from its earliest days. Jesus was baptized and crucified nude.5”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“Although you might not answer the door nude, you might at least do nothing to prevent being seen nude at home.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“tried to cover up the evidence”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“His disciples said: ‘When will You be revealed to us and when will we see You?’ Jesus said: ‘When you can take off your clothes and put them under your feet as little children and tread on them, then shall you see the Son of the Living One and you shall not fear.’”1”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“Our nudity becomes a true prayer as we “exhibit”5 our bodies as “holy and pleasing to God.”6”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“We believe that God has given us naturism as a tool to help “Christify” our minds and hearts.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“We are like mirrors reflecting divinity. If heaven is seeing God,2 and if we were created in His image,3 then far from being sinful, seeing the human body is a veritable act of worship.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“But those that wait at the court of heaven around the King of all, are sanctified in the immortal vesture of the Spirit, that is, the flesh, and so put on incorruptibility. . And Isaiah, another prophet, was naked and barefooted,4”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity

“To the worldly eye Christ’s nakedness is seen as a humiliation, but through the eyes of faith this is not a defeat, but a triumph over evil.”
― Jim C. Cunningham, Nudity & Christianity