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“Every major religion on earth subscribes to the belief in a period of fasting -- abstinence from food, sex, and other basic human cravings. It's meant to help you dwell on the bigger mysteries that have confounded mankind -- the purpose of existence, the meaning of life, the transient effervescence of our being and... what your wife really meant when she said, "I am not mad at you" this morning.”

Marriage Relationship Fasting

Book:Mad(e) In India

Source: Mad(e) In India

“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”

Humor Dies Hope Money Deep Thought 4th Of July Fasting Poor Richard Prayer And Fasting

Author:Benjamin Franklin

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

Years Has Beens Lost Prayer Effort Praying Breakthrough Our Prayers Fasting

Author:T. B. Joshua

“The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients is supplied in an easily assimilated form, so the digestive tract is able to remain essentially at rest. It is only through the combined use of both cleansing processes, and a very good diet, that one will be able to reach her or his maximal level of physical health and an unclouded consciousness.”

“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.”

Thinking Helping Cooks Priests Make You Think Fasting

Book:Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)

Source: Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)

“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.”

Should Together Remember Father Felt Sound Water Half Laughing Cry Devil Everyday Forgotten Punishment Bread Welcome My Time Wickedness Potatoes Fasting Monotony Bread And Butter

Book:The Path of Life

Source: The Path of Life

“Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.”

Self Longing Restraint Fasting Incessant Self Restraint

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“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.”

Knows Doe Soul Play Use Body Evil Know How Teacher Benefits Nonsense Leisure Absurdity Wickedness Filling Fasting Dice

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.”

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“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”

Knows Needs Important Next Numbers Blood Keys Tests Sugar Laboratory Fasting Protein Labs Vitamins Blood Sugar Thyroid Vitamin D

Author:Daniel Amen

“The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“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.”

Mean Doe Made Existence Attitude Singing Glory Praise Devotion Offering Fasting Glory Of God Chanting Attitude Towards Life

Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.”

Children Might Church Atheism Drink Spring Bird Positive Atheism Modest Fasting Dames

Author:William Blake

“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.”

Said Funny Games Sound Athlete British Olympics They Said Fasting Second Thoughts Ramadan London Olympics Sampling

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.”

Want Wells Eye Care Taken Strive His Eyes Dislike Recalls Complaints Strife Discontent Fasting Malcontent

Author:Joseph Hall

“Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.”

Imagination Logic Fasting

Book:A Shilling for Candles

Source: A Shilling for Candles

“Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.”

Sincerity Fasting Firmness

Author:Fatima bint Muhammad

“Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.”

Should Mind Prayer France Fasting Rue Prayer And Fasting

Book:Letters of Susan Hale

Source: Letters of Susan Hale

“Surfeits kill more than fasting does.”

Doe Eating Fasting

Book:The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

Source: The letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple

“I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.”

Thinking Giving Might Belief Television Giving Up Doctrine Superstitions Old Fashioned Fasting

Author:Michael Ramsey

“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.”

Different Choices Sex Views Buddhism Eating Video Sensual Tonight Fasting Selected Having Sex Different Choices

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is to find that your entire Ramadan with all of its quran recitation, fasting, taraweeh prayers, laylatul qadr, etc. went completely to waste because your pride stopped you from saying “I'm sorry”. With that being said, I'm sorry if I've written, said, or done anything to offend you. Please find it in your heart to forgive and make dua that Allah grants me guidance and sincerity.”

“If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.”

Ifs Men Needs Kind Long Today Waiting Can Do Laughing Long Time Intelligent Hunger Driven Instance Elsewhere Impatient Fasting Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

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

Knows Heart Exposed Fasting

Book:Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays

Source: Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays

“Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your body at suhoor, but starve your heart of Qiyam. Don't reduce this downpour of mercy to just a month of sweets and lavish iftars. Seek Him, you will find. Take a sincere step towards change, transformation, redemption. If you do, you will find Him in front of you. Find Him this month. He's been there all along. Closer than your jugular vein. Look and you'll find. Walk and you'll arrive.”

“Man shall not live by bread alone.”

“Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.”

Humans Eating Universal Response Meals Fasting Agape Feasting

Author:Elise M. Boulding

“It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.”

Heart Hours Prayer Casts Selfishness Demon Repentance Fasting Unbelief Worldliness Change Of Heart

Author:Theodore L. Cuyler

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Men Want Looks Religion Prayer Praying Treats Fasting Wise Man Once Said

Author:Ja'far al-Sadiq

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

Ifs Throat Fasting

Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.”

Life States Animal Live Life Exposure Fasting Life Span

Author:Joel Fuhrman

“Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.”

Done Easy Prayer Working It Fasting Bearable

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.”

Ifs Knows Heart Values Prayer Sin Committed Rely Bleeding Fasting Penance Austerity Rely Upon Bleeding Heart

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.”

Prayer Common Fasting

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

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

Religion Teach Praying Remove Distress Fasting

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“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.”

Opinion Effects Expression Depends Species Bitterness Public Opinion Fasting Satyagraha

Book:The Indian States' Problem

Source: The Indian States' Problem

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

Mind Soul Body Force Flesh Genuine Fasting Mind Body And Soul

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.”

Prayer Simple Space Charity Islam Core Interpretation Time And Space Fasting Acknowledgement Dogmatic Modification Faith Prayers

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete.”

“Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body and soul knows of our need to fast for its benefit for our spiritual life, development and our eternity. He granted us the knowledge and manner of fasting. As a kind Father and a wise Teacher, He has recommended fasting for us.”

Knows Needs Kind Soul Body Spiritual Father Grace Teacher Wise Development Blessing Benefits Eternity Creator Granted Spiritual Life Commandments Godly Fasting

Author:Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

“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.”

People Way Persons Soul Body Spiritual Levels Crosses Intention Partners Torture Cooperation Behaviour Fasting Martyrdom Asceticism

Author:Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

“Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up so that God may work with it without impediment to the happiness of the spiritual entity.”

May Soul Body Spiritual Desire Hunger Burden Lifts Purity Load Entity Fasting Elevation Impediments

Author:Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

“The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.”

Soul Body Praying Praise Communion Fasting Meditating Communion With God

Author:Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

“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.”

“By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit is also given for obedience. This is why obedience is higher than prayer and fasting.”

Men Inspirational Christian Spirit Given Religious Prayer Grace Pride Higher Holy Sake Obedience Holy Spirit Orthodox Fasting Guarded Prayer And Fasting

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“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.”

“Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.”

Hands Prayer Support Grace Bears Mercy Storm Christian Inspirational Knees Thrones Revival Persevere Fasting Missions And Prayer Revival Prayer Prayer And Fasting

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.”

Ifs Spirit Christ Prayer Praying Direct Flesh Fellowship Revival Fasting Praying To God Hinder Revival Prayer Prayer And Fasting Fellowship With God

Author:Bonar Law

“I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.”

Mind Together America Spirit Sound Prayer Poor Revolution Rebel Fasting Deluded Sound Mind Prayer And Fasting

Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

“In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.”

Feels Mean Littles Christian Found Prayer Poor Grace Creatures Weak Chinese Meat Meals Dependent Dislike Faith In God End Times Accustomed Spend Time Fasting Hindrance Prayer And Fasting

Author:Hudson Taylor

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