Fasting And Prayer Quotes

22 quotes from 20 authors

Whether you observe Ramadan or simply value moments of reflection, the collection here blends personal stories with cultural insight on fasting and prayer. Twenty‑two contributors discuss how abstinence sharpens focus, deepens gratitude, and shapes community bonds. You may also enjoy related pages on Spiritual Practices, Religious Rituals, and Mindful Living for broader perspectives.

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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

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“There is power in prayer, but there is added power in a combination of fasting and prayer.”

Billy Joe Daugherty

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“If love were only spiritual, the practices of fasting and prayer would not exist.”

Jalaluddin Rumi

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I knew in my heart that it was right to go on a mission, but it required a lot of fasting and…

Shawn Bradley

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Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive…

Lou Engle

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“I have always looked upon a telephone as an official kind of machine which you prepared for with fasting and prayer, and…

C.N. Williamson

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I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and…

John Wesley

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Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and…

John Wesley

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Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as…

Prophet Muhammad

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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery,…

Nat Turner

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For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan - a time of fasting and prayer for the vast…

Peter Bergen

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Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish…

Jonathan Sacks

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There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence…

Abdu'l-Bahá

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In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but…

Spencer W. Kimball

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I have decided to proclaim for the whole Church... a day of fasting and prayer for peace in Syria, the Middle East,…

Pope Francis

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Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my…

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which…

Hudson Taylor

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Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of Ramadan means…

George W. Bush

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“But it would be a great mistake to think that the awakening of desire for the Bridegroom would produce a wave of…

John Piper

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“The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Honorable, happy, and successful marriage is surely the principal goal of every normal person. Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all…

Spencer W. Kimball

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It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief.…

Theodore L. Cuyler

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