Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television. — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
I go by my own body type when it comes to fasting, which means that I would not follow some general advice… — Riya Sen Copy Share Image
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fasting for Yom Kippur is pretty much the only time I wish I was eating Matzah on Passover. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The irony of Ramadhan is that, after binging on buffets every morning and every evening, people usually gain weight during the month… — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My mom is spiritual, and she always starves herself in the name of fasting. I don't like it. I always fight with… — Raghava Lawrence Copy Share Image
I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the… — Bill Johnson 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
“When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
I belong to a highly religious family. Both my mother and father perform fasting, do shrads and completely believe in Ganpati. This… — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“We celebrate together, and that makes sense. And we don’t just gather, we eat. This wasn’t always so. The federal government first… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
“The ways to find one’s way to Enlightenment are many. There is prayer and fasting, and some try that to great effect,… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
Don't let this Ramadan be just a holiday of rituals. Don't finish reading the Quran without it transforming you. Don't feed your… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“But it would be a great mistake to think that the awakening of desire for the Bridegroom would produce a wave of… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Therefore bread was created for the glory of Christ. Hunger and thirst were created for the glory of Christ. And fasting was… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Because of this, I feel I am performing a work of love, not of hostility. I do not aim to accuse the… — Adalbert de Vogue monk of La Pierre-qui-Vire Copy Share Image
Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! Indulge while you can, for we start fasting in the next few weeks to come. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer… — Susan Hale Copy Share Image
I would that ye should come unto Christ, who is the Holy One of Israel, and partake of his salvation, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Even though the Olympics take place during Ramadan, some Muslim athletes said they will not fast during games. Then, after sampling the… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
If you're having a difficult time making the best decision then consider fasting. Fasting is simply taking something you regularly do and… — Dan Black Copy Share Image
“To tune truly in to the frequency of truth, theo-semioticians need a sound system; prayer as your subwoofer, fasting as your equalizer,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as… — Prophet Muhammad Copy Share Image
In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain,… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer.… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“We must get to the place where we are desperate for God again. We must begin to desire Him more than food… — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen,… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
