Fasting quotes:

Send

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness. -- Tariq Ramadan
Fasting is a medicine. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Fasting is the first principle of medicine. -- Rumi
Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -- Benjamin Franklin
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within. -- Paracelsus
Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord. -- L. Tom Perry
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -- Euripides
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. -- Ezra Taft Benson
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. -- Hermann Hesse
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. -- Abraham Cahan
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. -- Dallas Willard
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits. -- Russell M. Nelson
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. -- Nat Turner
I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. -- Carre Otis
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. -- Tariq Ramadan
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. -- Terry Pratchett
Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting will break poverty from your life. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting. -- J. Harold Smith
Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting is truly a secret source of power. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage -- Jennifer E. Smith
Fasting of the body is food for the soul. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic. -- Josephine Tey
Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity. -- Fatima bint Muhammad
Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul. -- Rumi
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul. -- Rumi
Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them. -- Rumi
Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape. -- Elise M. Boulding
Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself. -- Rumi
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart. -- Jentezen Franklin
Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us. -- Bill Bright
Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest. -- Jentezen Franklin
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion. -- Rumi
Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us. -- Richard J. Foster
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem. -- Joel Fuhrman
Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight. -- Frederick Lenz
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer. -- John Calvin
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness." -- Tariq Ramadan
Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the soul and the insistent self-gratifying appetites of the body. -- Derek Prince
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment." -- Tariq Ramadan
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. -- Athenaeus
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself. -- Saint Augustine
Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him. -- Pope Francis
Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest. -- Arthur Wallis
For me, fasting has just been a huge part of everything God has done in my life, Fasting means I am putting everything on hold, and I am spending the time with God. It brings everything in focus, and I become eternity-minded. -- Jentezen Franklin
Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God. -- Andy Murray
Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer. -- Monica Johnson
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting -- Benjamin Franklin
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. -- David Blaine
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. -- Mahavira
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. -- St. Jerome
We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil. -- Pope John Paul II
If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both. -- Francis Quarles
Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays. -- Marcus Samuelsson
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them. -- Tariq Ramadan
We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing. -- Monica Johnson
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us. -- Tariq Ramadan
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly. -- Troy Polamalu
The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things. -- Ole Hallesby
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. -- Robert Rainy
Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept. -- Boyd K. Packer
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life. -- Jonathan Sacks
I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago. -- Ronda Rousey
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. -- Saint Basil
Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs because fasting is an act of humility. Fasting gives opportunity for deeper humility as we recognize our sins, repent, receive God's forgiveness, and experience His cleansing of our soul and spirit. Fasting also demonstrates our love for God and our full confidence in His faithfulness. -- Bill Bright
. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons." -- Adalbert De Vogüé
He that lives upon hope will die fasting." -- Benjamin Franklin
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love." -- Euripides
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit." -- Ezra Taft Benson
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do." -- Hermann Hesse
Wherever you are, you must be very happy; because I am fasting for your happiness forever" -- M.F. Moonzajer
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer." -- Horatio Alger
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting." -- Abraham Cahan
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat." -- Naguib Mahfouz
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind." -- Anonymous
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer." -- Nat Turner
You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food." -- Joanne Harris
Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, 'Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10.' That's not what detoxification is about." -- Tracy Anderson
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever." -- Stijn Streuvels
You're quite right there," he saidI have practiced abstinence myself for years, and had my time of fasting, too, but now I find myself once more beneath the sign of Aquarius, a dark and humid constellation." -- Hermann Hesse
We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture." -- Francis de Sales
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbour by his own nature." -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Laboratory tests are the next set of important numbers to know. Here are the key lab test numbers you need to know: 1. Complete blood count 2. General metabolic panel with fasting blood sugar and lipid panel 3. HgA1C 4. Vitamin D 5. Thyroid panel 6. C-reactive protein" -- Daniel G. Amen
Who is to say which is better--to hunger and be fed, or to be fed so continuously that you never know hunger? Sometimes a little fasting is good for the soul. Think of a cold drink of water after an afternoon in the hayfield." -- Zenna Henderson
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness." -- Spencer W. Kimball
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited." -- Robert Rainy
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whether we are feasting or fasting or somewhere in between, food should have a sacred role in our lives. It can be something we sacrifice, something we savor, something we share, and through it all we can remain fulfilled because we are grounded in God, the only One who can satisfy our hungry hearts." -- Mary DeTurris Poust
Maybe what you care most passionately about are fasting and high colonics--cappuccino enemas, say. This is fine, but we do not want you to write about them; we will secretly believe that you are simply spiritualizing your hysteria. There are millions of people already doing this at churches and New Age festivals across the land." -- Anne Lamott
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life." -- Jonathan Sacks
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her." -- Mohsin Hamid
Having found the book which has a message for us, let us not be guilty of the folly of saying we have read it. We might as well say we have breakfasted, as if breakfasting on one day should last us for every day! The book that helps us deserves many readings, for assimilation comes by slow degrees." -- Charlotte Mason
I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the power of his redemption. Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him, and continue in fasting and praying, and endure to the end; and as the Lord liveth ye will be saved." -- Joseph Smith Jr.
I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago." -- Ronda Rousey
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness." -- Saint Basil
Celibacy,fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...Stupify the understanding and harden the heart, obscure the fancy and sour the temper...A gloomy hair-brained enthusiast, after his death, may have a place in the calendar, but will scarcely ever be admitted, when alive, into intimacy and society, except by those who are as delerious and dismal as himself." -- David Hume
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting?Better go drunk and begging round the taverns.Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this clay of yoursWill make a cup, bowl, one day a jar.When once you hear the roses are in bloom,Then is the time, my love, to pour the wine;Houris and palaces and Heaven and Hell-These are but fairy-tales, forget them all." -- Omar Khayyam
The power of fasting is miraculous. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Health and healing will follow fasting. -- Jentezen Franklin
surfeits kill more than fasting does ... -- Dorothy Osborne
The goal of fasting is inner unity. -- Thomas Merton
We can accomplish a lot with prayer and fasting. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting. -- Jentezen Franklin
The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine. -- Jentezen Franklin

Send