Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting. — Mahavira Copy Share Image
Every person has a zakaat (to pay) and the zakaat of the body is fasting. — Ibn Majah Copy Share Image
Yes I believe detoxing and fasting can be very healthy for a period of time. — Toni Garrn Copy Share Image
Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
“The fastest way to lose weight is to find religion and start fasting.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Fasting is not an option but an assumed practice for the serious-minded follower of Jesus.” — Gary Rohrmayer Copy Share Image
Ramadan is the Islamic holy month of fasting, a time to reflect on one's life and purpose while abstaining from bad habits. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.” — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive… — Lou Engle Copy Share Image
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving. — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
One month with fasting, and it's not possible to do training in Ramadan. It's very hard. You have to fast when the… — Islam Makhachev Copy Share Image
I knew in my heart that it was right to go on a mission, but it required a lot of fasting and… — Shawn Bradley Copy Share Image
My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the… — Athenaeus Copy Share Image
If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“Fasting is the simplest and surest method to force your body to burn sugar. Blood glucose is the most easily accessible source… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“Pierre Janet, a French professor of psychology who became prominent in the early twentieth century, attempted to fully chronicle late- Victorian hysteria… — Michelle Stacey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the best preparation is a wandering, soul-enriching procrastination. Take a nap, throw the Frisbee, sing a song, and then write the… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“Intermittent fasting does not produce muscle loss. In fact, you will actually perform better, exercise harder, have more energy, and more strength… — Sharon Daniels Copy Share Image
“There's hidden sweeteness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything,… — Rumi 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
The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
“There is power in prayer, but there is added power in a combination of fasting and prayer.” — Billy Joe Daugherty Copy Share Image
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
