Fasting Quotes
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.
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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.
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Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
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Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.
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Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
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It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.
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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.
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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.
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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
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Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.
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Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
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I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine and never looked back. I practiced every day for ten to twelve hours a day - spiritual studies, meditation, pranayama, yoga postures, Ayurvedic studies, deep, deep, powerful cleansings and fasting.
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I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
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Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest.
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The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.
