Fasting Quotes - Page 4

• The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.

  Ole Hallesby

  Spiritual, Order, Ties

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• When you are hunger for God, He will fill you.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Hunger, Hunger For God

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• I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

  Bill Johnson

  Vision, Watches, Hamburgers

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• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  Euripides

  Love, Men, Heaven

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• Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.

  Umar

  Night, Abiding, Praying

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• Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Eye, Self, Ego

  "Ramadan is over, but the struggle goes on". www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2012.

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• When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Broken, Giving, Together

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting”, p.11, Charisma Media

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• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  Umar

  Prayer, Looks, Sincerity

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• Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.

  Lou Engle

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Men

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• Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Powerful, Focus, Promise

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.53, Charisma Media

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• Fast, worship, and seek Him.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Worship

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

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• More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Caution, Restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting.

  Ibn Majah

  Body, Pay, Persons

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• Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Mean, Constant

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.72, Charisma Media

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• If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

  Francis Quarles

  Exercise, Soul, Sound Body

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• Health and healing will follow fasting.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Healing

  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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• 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

  Drug, Pills, Weight

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• Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mind, Body, Spirit

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  Nat Turner

  Prayer, Mixing, Mystery

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

  Upton Sinclair

  Perfect, Feelings, Purity

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• 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.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Worship, Aids

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.88, Ravenio Books

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Done, Easy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• For me, fasting has just been a huge part of everything God has done in my life, Fasting means I am putting everything on hold, and I am spending the time with God. It brings everything in focus, and I become eternity-minded.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Mean, Focus, Done

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• Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Anointing

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before”, p.27, Charisma Media

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• Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.

  L. Tom Perry

  Faith, Lord

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