QUOTES

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.  (Herman Hesse)

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. (Ezra Taft Benson)

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.  (Joseph B. Wirthlin)

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.  (Mahavira)

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right.  And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.  (Mya)

In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, to enjoy the feast.  (Stephen Hough)

The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what’s you and what’s the accumulative body.  (Jaggi Vasudev)

Fasting, or intermittent fasting, gives us an opportunity to really get all the best cells all the time and that’s what we all want.  (Steven Gundry)

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.  (Monica Johnson)

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ.  (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days. (Adalbert De Vogue)

Fasting from eating doesn’t change our hunger, but when we exchange what we hunger for, it can change the way we eat.  (Wendy Speake)

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.  (Rumi)

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.  (St. Jerome)

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.  (Mahatma Gandhi)

A fast is better than a bad meal.  (Irish proverb)

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.  (Benjamin Franklin)

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.  (John Chrysostom)