Fasting Quotes

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

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.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

Fasting is what prepares you for a new anointing.

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.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

If you want to please God, believe God.

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

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

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

Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

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

The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

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.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.

Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually.

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.

Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

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.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

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

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.

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.

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

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

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.

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.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

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

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

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.

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

Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast.

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

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.

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.

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

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

Health and healing will follow fasting.

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.

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

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