Fasting Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “The goal of fasting is inner unity.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fasting Goal Goals Spiritual Unity
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
The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast… — Tariq Ramadan 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
“Fasting, in its most fundamental aspiration, is about developing a sacrificial, self-offering life that addresses and nurtures the needs of others.” — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
“After getting the body to fast, We [as the Self] should remain in Our upayog (applied awareness of the Self). The purpose of fasting… — Dada Bhagwan 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
“Fasting is a spiritual exercise that engenders the development of strong willpower and the spirit of regimentation. It” — Virender Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Fasting clears away the thousand little things which quickly accumulate and clutter the body, mind and heart. It cuts through corrosion and renews our… — Paul Bragg Copy Share Image
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women… — Tariq Ramadan 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
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton 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
