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We can accomplish a lot with prayer and fasting.

When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day.

We suffer these things and they fade form memory. But daily, hourly, to give up our own possessions and especially to subordinate our own impulses and wishes to to others - these are hard, hard things; and I don't think they ever get any easier. You can strip yourself, you can be stripped, but still you will reach out like an octopus to seek your own comfort, your untroubled time, your ease, your refreshment. It may mean books or music - the gratification of the inner sense - or it may mean food and drink, coffee and cigarettes. The one kind of giving up is no easier than the other.

You should not fast just to get the anointing. That won’t be very effective. Fasting is rather a means of abasing yourselves for the service of God and man.

When I walk in the forest just before the meal, while reciting the scriptural phrase that I "meditate" for that day, spiritual joy comes over me as if by appointment.

You must not only pray and fast, but read and mediate on word of God.

Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.

Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him.

Fasting is a medicine.

Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

If you want to please God, believe God.

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering. These, joined with fasting and scripture study, will invite impressions and revelations and the whisperings of the Holy Spirit. This provides us with instruction from on high as we learn precept upon precept.

Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, "Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10." That's not what detoxification is about.

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

I went through the same process when I sort of addressed in my practice cancer next, when I began all the veganism and the fasting and the purifications. Part of that was just gratitude, expressing gratitude, thank you, thank you.

Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Lower caloric exposure and episodic fasting can extend the life span of all animals, the longer we spend in the catabolic state, the longer we live.

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.

Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

Satan gets disturbed -and defeated -when you decide to do more that be a Sunday-morning Christian.