Fasting Quotes

“Find Your Balance.”

— Kayla Kotecki

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

— Dorothy Osborne

Fast, worship, and seek Him.

— Jentezen Franklin

“Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.”

— Zhuangzi

“A holy fast is the food of faith.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to please God, believe God.

— Jentezen Franklin

Man shall not live by bread alone.

— Matthew McConaughey

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

— Thomas Merton

“Fasting is the most powerful tool of Prayer”

— Vikas Johnson

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

— Saint John Chrysostom

You train your heart to control your body. That's what you do when you fast.

— Nouman Ali Khan

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

— Euripides

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

— Benjamin Franklin

Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

— Jennifer E. Smith

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.

— Jentezen Franklin

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

— Rumi

“Fasting, in its most fundamental aspiration, is about developing a sacrificial, self-offering life that addresses and nurtures the needs of others.”

— Norman Wirzba

If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look…

— Ja'far al-Sadiq

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and…

— Umar

“Every time you feel hungry, thirsty or have a headache while fasting remind yourself and verbally say: "O Allāh, this is for…

— Anonymous

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

— Horatio Alger

“the same pathway that turns on BDNF production can be activated by intermittent fasting. We’ll”

— David Perlmutter

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed…

— Anonymous

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with…

— Zhuangzi

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

— Pope Francis

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

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

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct. Let modesty be compassion,…

— Guru Nanak

“They’d already learned it wasn’t smart to eat quickly after such a long period of fasting, but he didn’t care. If he…

— James Dashner

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

— Paul Bragg

“Compliance with the law of the fast would call attention to the sin of over-eating, place the body in subjection the the…

— Joseph F. Smith

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

— Omar Khayyam

To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices…

— John Ortberg

Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself…

— Gregory Palamas

Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the…

— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

You want to shock the body and not be constant. Intermittent fasting is an increasingly popular way: Skip breakfast, for example. Also…

— David Andrew Sinclair

Ramadan Mubarak, brothers and sisters of Islam! I hope you all take advantage of this sacred month. The month of Forgiveness and…

— Anonymous

Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of…

— Seraphim of Sarov