Fasting Quotes - Page 2

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

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

Health and healing will follow fasting.