Fasting Quote by Susan Hale

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little Louise sticking…

— Hilary Mantel

“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military Government of…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls,…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Fasting turns each moment of craving into a prayer of intense dependence.”

— Gary Rohrmayer

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

— Samuel Chadwick

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

— Joseph F. Smith

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Streets of Paris, pray for me; beaches in the sun, pray for me; ghosts of the lemurs, intercede for me; plane-tree and laurel-rose, shade…

— Cyril Connolly

“Below Les Avants there was a chalet where the pension was wonderful and we would be together and have our books and at night…

— Ernest Hemingway

“But there were endless rewards. There was a pervasive sense of adventure, that a surprise was just waiting to be discovered in the next…

— Penelope Rowlands

“The pressure is on. They've teased me all week, because I've avoided anything that requires ordering. I've made excuses (I'm allergic to beef," "Nothing…

— Stephanie Perkins