Fasting Quotes - Page 7

• Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears, fasting and the like. For God judges unrepentant fornicators and adulterers. He condemns them, dismisses them and consigns them to hell, unquenchable fire and other never-ending punishments, saying, 'Let the impure and accursed be taken away, lest they see and enjoy the glory of the Lord' (cf. Isa. 26:10 LXX).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Taken, Punishment

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heart, Trust In God

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting Journal: Your Personal 21-Day Guide to a Successful Fast”, p.104, Charisma Media

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• We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Misery, Drowning, Walk By Faith

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting”, p.125, Charisma Media

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• If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Throat, Ifs

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• To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Victory, Purpose, World

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.36, Random House

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• Even though the Olympics take place during Ramadan, some Muslim athletes said they will not fast during games. Then, after sampling the British food, they said, on second thought, fasting sounds good.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Athlete, London Olympics

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• Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

  Dorothy Osborne

  Doe, Eating

  Dorothy Osborne (1914). “The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple”

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• All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Public Opinion, Bitterness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Heart, Exposed, Knows

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays”, p.85, Open Road Media

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• Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

  J. Harold Smith

  Feasting

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• Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Overcoming, Demonic

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• Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!

  T. B. Joshua

  Prayer, Years, Effort

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• I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time.... Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that I should remember; but it was all no good... bread and water was a welcome change to me from the everyday monotony of potatoes and bread-and-butter. 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

  Father, Punishment, Water

  Stijn Streuvels (2005). “The Path of Life”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• 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

  Art, Warrior, Night

  "Ronda Rousey, UFC Fighter, On Trash Talking, The Olympics And Her Warrior-Paleo Diet" by Jordan Schultz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.

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• In the Lord's discourse on spiritual nourishment, we hear Him says: "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life." (John 6:27). He then continued by talking about the true bread from Heaven the bread of God, and the bread of life. (John 6:32-35). Here He appeals to the soul for its nourishment and our thoughts to the spiritual way so as not to occupy our minds with the body and its needs.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Talking, Bread Of Life

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• Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Attitude, Mean, Offering

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• Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out of God's hands or to force needed insight about a decision. Fasting is not a tool for gaining discipline or developing piety (whatever that might be). Instead, fasting is the bulimic act of ridding ourselves of our fullness to attune our senses to the mysteries that swirl in and around us."—Dan B. Allender, PhD

  Dan B. Allender

  Hands, Discipline, Decision

  Dan B. Allender (2009). “To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future”, p.186, WaterBrook

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• There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Church, Individual, Release

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.61, Charisma Media

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• No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

  Pope Francis

  Sleep, Ashes, Matter

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• If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and replacing it with praying and seeking God. For example instead of eating a meal you can take that time to seek God and allow Him to speak to you about the decision.

  Dan Black

  Decision, Example, Meals

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• 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

  Sex, Buddhism, Views

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• 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

  Juice, Pounds, Seven

  "Join the Gwyneth Paltrow & Tracy Anderson Fit Club". Interview with Judith Newman, www.redbookmag.com. December 20, 2012.

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• The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.

  Ramesh S Balsekar

  Men, Ego, Mind

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• When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him into the wilderness to fast for 40 days and to contend with the territorial strongman over the earth, satan himself. For 40 days, Jesus warred through prayer and fasting to reverse the curse of Adam and Eve and to overcome the devil and release atomic power into the earth. The results recorded in Luke show that history changed forever through the strength and victory the Lord gained by His obedience. Divine power was now His!

  Lou Engle

  Jesus, Prayer, Forever

  Lou Engle (1998). “Digging the Wells of Revival”, p.155, Destiny Image Publishers

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• You're quite right there," he said. "I 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

  Dark, Years, Aquarius

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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