Fasting Quotes

• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

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• Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Weapons, Source, Believer

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.49, Charisma Media

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• The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Son, Way

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before”, p.11, Charisma Media

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• Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heart, Bitterness, Clarity

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

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• Fasting will break poverty from your life.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Poverty, Break

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.90, Charisma Media

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

  Dallas Willard

  Source, Findings, Dependence

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• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mean, Self

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• Fasting is a medicine.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Medicine

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

  Rumi

  Eye, Order, Soul

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• There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .

  Rumi

  Song, Spring, Fire

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• The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Fitness, Medicine

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

  Rumi

  Heart, Giving, People

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• Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

  Bill Bright

  Self, Spirit, Intense

  Bill Bright (1995). “Preparing for the Coming Revival: How to Lead a Successful Fasting and Prayer Gathering”

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• What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, World, Outer Worlds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Fasting in Satyagraha: Its Use and Abuse”

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• The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Discipline, World, Routine

  Jentezen Franklin (2009). “Fasting Study Guide”, p.25, Charisma Media

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• The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Get Well, Healing

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• I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

  Plato

  Efficiency, Greater

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• 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.

  Athenaeus

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Discipline, Masters

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• Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, Men, Praying

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• The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

  John Wesley

  Men, Heaven, Way

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

  Paracelsus

  Physicians, Remedy

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

  Rumi

  Medicine, Principles, Firsts

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