The best of all medicines are resting and fasting.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

— Tariq Ramadan

The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing…

— Ramesh S Balsekar

How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for soon this…

— Omar Khayyam

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

— St. Jerome

Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body…

— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

— Jentezen Franklin

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

— Dorothy Osborne

Good Friday. Way of the Cross. Fasting and abstinence. Examine conscience. Have a really blessed day.

— Anonymous

I go by my own body type when it comes to fasting, which means that I would not follow some general advice or rule…

— Riya Sen

“Fasting clears away the thousand little things which quickly accumulate and clutter the body, mind and heart. It cuts through corrosion and renews our…

— Paul Bragg

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

— Dallas Willard

Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the…

— Pope Francis

The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to…

— Tariq Ramadan

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

— Chris Mohr

“Fasting, prayer, and almsgiving build the third pillar of the eremitic rigor that helps to develop the spiritual life.”

— Cornelius Wencel