Alms Quote by Philip Neri

“[T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine,…

— Samuel Rutherford

“The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including, consequently, those which one believed to be least…

— Marcel Proust

“God takes note of His creatures’ true intentions. The Lord favors a man who intends to fast during Ramadan over a man who fasts…

— Orhan Pamuk

A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“He put this engine [a silver pocket watch] into our ears, which made an incessant noise, like that of a water-mill: and we conjecture…

— Jonathan Swift

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

— Aeschylus

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature

— Mencius

He that followeth Nature is never out of his way

— Proverb

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

— Abraham Lincoln

“I approach this project in the spirit of a fast: an intentional reduction, a deliberate abstinence to summon God's movement in my life. A…

— Jen Hatmaker

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

— William Gurnall

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

— Jentezen Franklin