Fasting Quote by Josephine Tey Download Open image “Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.” — Josephine Tey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fasting Imagination Logic
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Fasting deprives us of things that are not good so we can have enough appetite for the good things of God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fasting is an act of humility that spotlights our weaknesses and reveals dependence on things rather than on God.” — Gary Rohrmayer 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 the effervescence… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of… — Derek Prince Copy Share Image
“She put her cup down and sighed again with pleasure. "I can't think how the Nonconformists have failed to discover coffee." "Discover it?" "Yes.… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“The only thing that counted to her was her own opinion of herself. If that became smirched or spoiled there would be nothing left.… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“This is nice,” she said. “They’re not very high, but I hate walking in them.” “What are?” “My shoes.” She held up a foot… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade. — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“Silas’s last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed,… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“How old was More when Richard succeeded? He was five. When that dramatic council scene had taken place at the Tower, Thomas More had… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“She'll never ride," Eleanor said. She can't even bump the saddle yet." "Perhaps loony people can't ride," Ruth suggested. "Ruth," Bee said, with vigour.… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought."… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 or rule… — Riya Sen Copy Share Image
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
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 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 open to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like. — Chris Mohr Copy Share Image
