The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.
Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.
You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.
Pray earnestly and fast with purpose and devotion. Some difficulties, like devils, do not come out save by fasting and by prayer. Ask in righteousness and you shall receive. Knock with conviction and it shall be opened unto you.
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.
To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned. . . it might be better to give up television.
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
Devotion does not mean only Chanting praise and singing glory of God, nor fasting and offerings made to God. Devotion is a specific attitude towards life and existence.
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.
The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.
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.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.
If you want to please God, believe God.