#modesty

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. ↗

— Belva Lockwood

#believe #distinction #everywhere #had #i

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves. ↗

— Charles Williams

#doctrine #forgive #forgiven #holy #largesse

Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#art

The humble one, is the better one. ↗

— Yap Lik Hock

#behaviour #humble #humbleness #modesty #spiritual

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why. ↗

— Wendy Shalit

#femininity #modesty #women #beauty

[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher. ↗

— Yasmin Mogahed

#society #spirituality #women #beauty

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #belief #fantasy #god #humility

Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty. ↗

— Toba Beta

#briliant #intelligence #modesty #intelligence

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men. ↗

— Yasmin Mogahed

#modesty #purpose #women #men

Author describes auto CEO's decisions to drive rather than fly to Washington as "showy penitence". ↗

— Ron Suskind

#education