Do not be misled by a person's prayers 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