Fasting Quotes - Page 4

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

Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.

Fast, worship, and seek Him.

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

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

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.

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

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

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.

If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and replacing it with praying and seeking God. For example instead of eating a meal you can take that time to seek God and allow Him to speak to you about the decision.

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

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

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

The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.

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

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.

Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, "Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10." That's not what detoxification is about.