Quotes by Fasting You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food. Joanne Harris fastingmake-you-thinkthinking 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-problemsfastingfirsts The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice. Joel Fuhrman fastingofferingmay 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 fastingalternativesdisease 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 fastinganimallife 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 fastingworshipprayer The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays. John Wesley fastingmenheaven Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God John Piper fastingchristianroots The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not. Joseph Hall fastingeyetaken Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic. Josephine Tey fastinglogicimagination Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord. L. Tom Perry fastinglordfaith 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 fastingprayermen The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. Mahatma Gandhi fastinglightworld Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion. Mahatma Gandhi fastingprayercommon What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner. Mahatma Gandhi fastingeyeworld More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. Mahatma Gandhi cautionrestraintfasting Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint. Mahatma Gandhi longingfastingself My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. Mahatma Gandhi fastingprayingreligion All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness. Mahatma Gandhi public-opinionfastingexpression A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free. Mahatma Gandhi fastingsoulmind«123456»
