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• 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.

  Derek Prince

  Men, Self, Two

  "Derek Prince On Experiencing Gods Power".

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• Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest.

  Arthur Wallis

  Men, Giving, Heaven

  Arthur Wallis (2011). “God's Chosen Fast: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to Fasting”, p.55, CLC Publications

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, America, Mind

  John Wesley (1835). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.476

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

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Prayer, World, Next

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• Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to healing are removed. Health is the normal state. Most chronic disease is the inevitable consequence of living a life-style that places disease-causing stressors on the human organism. Fasting gives the body an interlude without those stressors so that it can speedily repair or accomplish healing that could not otherwise occur in the feeding state.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Healing, Giving, Style

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• When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

  St. Jerome

  Food, Perspective, Catholic

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

  John Piper

  Christian, Roots, Hunger

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• Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

  Hippocrates

  Fitness, Medicine, Nutrition

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• 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.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Spiritual, Soul, Desire

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• Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

  Rumi

  Healing, Medicine, Energy

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• There is power in corporate fasting and power in corporate praise.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Praise, Corporate

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.139, Charisma Media

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Health, Intelligent, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

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• Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Humble, Grieving

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• Man shall not live by bread alone.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Jesus, Food

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• His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Angel, Purpose, Broke

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.16, Charisma Media

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• 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

  Hunger Strike, Literature, Demand

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• Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Blood, Pressure, Cholesterol

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.40, Charisma Media

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• When the Holy Spirit calls your to fast, He is preparing you for what is ahead.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Spirit, Holy, Preparing

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• Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.

  Hippocrates

  Funny Inspirational, Get Well, Healing

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• Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Alternatives, Disease, Patient

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• Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Prayer, Evil

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• He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hope, Money, 4th Of July

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1758) preface

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• 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.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

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• Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Secret, Source

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before”, p.13, Charisma Media

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

  Fatima bint Muhammad

  Sincerity, Firmness

  "Ayan al-Shī'ah". Book by Fatima bint Muhammad, vol.1, p. 316,

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