“the same pathway that turns on BDNF production can be activated by intermittent fasting. We’ll” — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission. — Quran Copy Share Image
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
“Dad‟s joke was that people usually put on weight during Ramazan rather than loose it due to one-month of fasting.” — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
If I'm not hungry and I'm busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It's informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly… — David Andrew Sinclair Copy Share Image
For me, fasting has just been a huge part of everything God has done in my life, Fasting means I am putting… — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro was a revolutionary spirit from the practical spiritual side of it, but not with "religiosity"; not with prayer and fasting… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
I used to fast during Ramadan because I admired the people fasting around me. What made me convert was that I had… — Nicolas Anelka Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was a devil of a scapegrace in my time… Father racked his head for days together to find a punishment that… — Stijn Streuvels Copy Share Image
Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
“Prison is one of the places where we should look for Him. I remember a Good Friday in a cell in the… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“We know Satan will attack weak spots first. Forty days of fasting left Jesus famished, so Satan began with the topic of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Religious fasting is the best way to cure an anorexic's spirit: in heaven her condition will be normal.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice. — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Fasting is more about replacing than it is about abstaining — replacing normal activities with focused times of prayer and feeding on… — Gary Rohrmayer Copy Share Image
His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed… — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Fasting, prayer, and almsgiving build the third pillar of the eremitic rigor that helps to develop the spiritual life.” — Cornelius Wencel Copy Share Image
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out. — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint — Anonymous Copy Share Image