Fasting Quote by Rumi Download Open image “Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.” — Rumi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fasting Firsts Medicine Principles Religion Spirit
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
Oh you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you many learn piety and righteousness.… — Quran Copy Share Image
“Fasting is a spiritual exercise that engenders the development of strong willpower and the spirit of regimentation. It” — Virender Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Fasting is a spiritual exercise whose purpose is to subject the body to the liberating yoke of Jesus. As Wendell Berry puts it, denying… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. — Rumi Copy Share
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you answer. Don’t ask why this delights me.” — Rumi Copy Share
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share
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 that rids itself of the desire to eat. Fasting is a time when the soul flourishes and lifts the body up with it. It rids the body of its loads and burdens and lifts it up… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share
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