Fasting Quotes - Page 6

• Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Lamps, Ethics

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Meals, Eating, Feasting

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• The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR, ROMULUS, is now supplied by DOMINIC, FRANCIS, ANTHONY, and BENEDICT. Instead of the destruction of monsters, the subduing of tyrants, the defence of our native country; whippings and fastings, cowardice and humility, abject submission and slavish obedience, are become the means of obtaining celestial honours among mankind.

  David Hume

  Country, Hero, Mean

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1245, Delphi Classics

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• Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Solitude, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.251, Modern Library

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• The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients is supplied in an easily assimilated form, so the digestive tract is able to remain essentially at rest. It is only through the combined use of both cleansing processes, and a very good diet, that one will be able to reach her or his maximal level of physical health and an unclouded consciousness.

  Rudolph Ballentine

  Successful, Vegetables, Technique

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• Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Longing, Incessant

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.28, A&C Black

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• Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is to find that your entire Ramadan with all of its quran recitation, fasting, taraweeh prayers, laylatul qadr, etc. went completely to waste because your pride stopped you from saying “I'm sorry”. With that being said, I'm sorry if I've written, said, or done anything to offend you. Please find it in your heart to forgive and make dua that Allah grants me guidance and sincerity.

  Omar Suleiman

  Hurt, Sorry, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Jun 14, 2015

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• Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Spring, Body, Cleaning

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.38, Charisma Media

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• Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Poison

  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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• A doctor's authority in America often exceeds his or her knowledge. Whole bodies of knowledge in healing are ignored because they are unorthodox and non-medical. A doctor's education seems exhaustive, yet MDs study so much about drugs and surgery - and so little about nutrition, fasting, herbal remedies, spinal manipulation, massage, vitamin and mineral therapy, homeopathy, and more - that we realize their qualifications are incomplete.

  Andrew Saul

  Healing, Vitamins And Minerals, America

  Source: www.drpasswater.com

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• Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Hands, Christian Inspirational

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.383

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• Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heal Itself, Giving, Body

  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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• One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

  Chris Mohr

  Hunger, Reason, Feels

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• Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your body at suhoor, but starve your heart of Qiyam. Don't reduce this downpour of mercy to just a month of sweets and lavish iftars. Seek Him, you will find. Take a sincere step towards change, transformation, redemption. If you do, you will find Him in front of you. Find Him this month. He's been there all along. Closer than your jugular vein. Look and you'll find. Walk and you'll arrive.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Sweet, Reading, Heart

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• The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

  Zhuangzi

  Empathy, Understanding, Mind

  "The Living Bread". Book by Thomas Merton, 1956.

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• Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Common

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.192, Tara Publishing

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• Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Life, Animal, States

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• If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.

  Hermann Hesse

  Intelligent, Men, Long

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

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• There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

  Immanuel Kant

  Waste, Penance, Body

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• Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was created for the glory of Christ. Which means that bread magnifies Christ in two ways: by being eaten with gratitude for his goodness, and by being forfeited out of hunger for God himself. When we eat, we taste the emblem of our heavenly food—the Bread of Life. And when we fast we say, “I love the Reality above the emblem.” In the heart of the saint both eating and fasting are worship. Both magnify Christ.

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Mean

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.23, SPCK

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• What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hate, Men, Ruins

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• In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

  Robert Barron

  Prayer, Mean, Mind

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• Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

  Jennifer E. Smith

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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• If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden (cf. Isa. 58:11). So, then, your soul shall grow fat and its virtues also by the spiritual richness of fasting, and your fruits shall be multiplied by the fertility of your mind, so that there may be in you the inebriation of soberness, like that cup of which the Prophet says: 'Your cup which inebriates, how excellent it is' (Ps. 23:5 LXX)!

  Ambrose

  Christian, Spiritual, Humility

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