Fasting Quotes - Page 5

• The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Christian, Blessing, Discipline

  Jentezen Franklin (2012). “Fasting Student Edition: Go Deeper and Further with God than Ever Before”, p.7, Charisma Media

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• Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart.

  Elif Safak

  Real, Heart, Water

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• I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Heart, Night

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.32, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Christian, Three, Rewards

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.14, Charisma Media

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• We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Giving, Mastery, Alive

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• 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.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Medical Problems, Firsts, Natural

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• The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Offering, May, Malpractice

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• The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

  Horatio Alger

  Prayer, Night, Praying

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• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Prayer, Men, Touching

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• By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit is also given for obedience. This is why obedience is higher than prayer and fasting.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Flesh, Spirit, Hunger

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.83, Charisma Media

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• Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Enabling, Spirit, Sensitive

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• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Powerful, Weapons, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.488, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

  Rumi

  Sky, Want, Immortality

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• I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

  Michael Ramsey

  Giving Up, Thinking, Doctrine

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• Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Prayer, Whispering, Scripture

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• 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.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Sacrifice, Trials, Stones

  "The Holy Temple—a Beacon to the World". Thomas S. Monson’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Fellowship With God, Flesh

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• I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it's like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.

  Troy Polamalu

  Reading, Depth, Orthodox

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• Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Blessing, Years, January

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• The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Prayer, Simple, Space

  "'They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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• Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Pain, Office

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• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Style, Needs

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• In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Lying, Passion, Heart

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