fasting Quotes

Many still believe that fasting is just a healing method.

\'You get an appetite while eating\' and hunger while fasting.

Fasting is required, staying away from fighting and arguing and bombing of masjids is still going on. Hatred is still manifested between Sunni and Shi\'a, I don\'t know whether there is deepening of commitment to Ramadan in that part of the world.

Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with \'religiosity\'; not with prayer and fasting and charity in that sense, but he gave it all, to make humanity better.

The total number of calories per day should not exceed 1800. On some days, the calories may be much less: 1000 or even 800. What should definitely be avoided is periods of complete fasting: it is pointless and dangerous!

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.

One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

Fasting is a medicine.

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.

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.

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

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.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

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.

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.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

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.

Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.

If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden (cf. Isa. 58:11). So, then, your soul shall grow fat and its virtues also by the spiritual richness of fasting, and your fruits shall be multiplied by the fertility of your mind, so that there may be in you the inebriation of soberness, like that cup of which the Prophet says: 'Your cup which inebriates, how excellent it is' (Ps. 23:5 LXX)!

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.

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.

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.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taughtЂ'prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.