Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.
Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.
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.
The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.
Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.
Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.
Health and healing will follow fasting.
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.
Fast, worship, and seek Him.
