Fasting Quotes - Page 3

• Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Spiritual, Discipline

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before”, p.25, Charisma Media

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• 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

  Doe, Mouths

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Spirit, Break, Heaviness

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before”, p.57, Charisma Media

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• If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

  Abraham Cahan

  Study, Praying, Please

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Soul, Body, Food For The Soul

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• He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

  Al-Ghazali

  World, Invisible

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• 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

  Prayer, Fate, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Adversity, Exercise, Men

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• If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.

  Ja'far al-Sadiq

  Prayer, Men, People

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• Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Prayer, Devil, Purpose

  Jeffrey R. Holland (1985). “However Long and Hard the Road”, Deseret Book Co

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• 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

  Prayer, Heart, Humility

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• Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

  Cyprian

  Prayer, Almsgiving, Prayer And Fasting

  Saint Cyprian, Roy J. Deferrari (2007). “Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)”, p.232, CUA Press

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• A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Mind, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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• To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

  John Ortberg

  Perseverance, Powerful, Disappointment

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• You train your heart to control your body. That's what you do when you fast.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Heart, Body, Train

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• 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

  Giving, Spirit, Helping

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• 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

  Letting Go, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

  David Livingstone

  Running, Prayer, Views

  David Livingstone (2002). “The Life and African Explorations of Dr. David Livingstone: Comprising All His Extensive Travels and Discoveries : as Detailed in His Diary, Reports, and Letters, Including His Famous Last Journals : with Maps and Numerous Illustrations”, p.516, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Christian, Giving, Three

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• The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Light, World, Within You

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• My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Praying, Teach

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.43, Rajpal & Sons

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• Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the body to reach the level of cooperation with the soul. When we fast, our intention is not to torture the body but to shun its behaviour. Thus, one who fasts becomes a spiritual and not a physical person. Fasting is an ascetic soul which takes the body with it as its partner in asceticism.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, People, Soul

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• The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.

  Rumi

  Kitchen, Body, Lovers

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• The goal of fasting is inner unity.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Goal, Unity

  Thomas Merton (2004). “The Way of Chuang Tzu”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Doctors, Average

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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