Quotes and Sayings About Fasting
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If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
-- Abraham Cahan -
He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
-- Al-Ghazali -
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.
-- Bill Bright -
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 -
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
-- Dallas Willard -
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 -
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
-- David Blaine -
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 -
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.
-- Fatima bint Muhammad -
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.
-- Gretel Ehrlich -
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
-- Hermann Hesse -
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
-- Horatio Alger -
Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.
-- Ibn Majah -
Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.
-- J. Harold Smith -
Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Fasting is truly a secret source of power.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
When the Holy Spirit calls your to fast, He is preparing you for what is ahead.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Fasting will break poverty from your life.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.
-- Jentezen Franklin -
The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.
-- Jentezen Franklin
