Achieve Quote by Victor L. Brown

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

Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body…

— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

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

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

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

To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that…

— Howard W. Hunter

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

“Fasting is a beautiful test of what or Who rules our lives.”

— Philip Nation

Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court…

— Arthur Wallis

Fasting deprives us of things that are not good so we can have enough appetite for the good things of God.

— Anonymous

“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

The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body.

— Jaggi Vasudev