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When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.
The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.
If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.
In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.
Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.
Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.
Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.
It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint
He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.
My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.
The Son of God fasted because He knew there were supernatural things that could only be released that way.
There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.
The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body.
A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.
Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Sufism has always had the function of purifying Islamic ethics and that fasting and tazkiya is like lighting a lamp.
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.
Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.
The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.
I go by my own body type when it comes to fasting, which means that I would not follow some general advice or rule of thumb.
The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
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.
Fasting, or intermittent fasting, gives us an opportunity to really get all the best cells all the time and that's what we all want.
With intermittent fasting, I don't really eat breakfast. My eating window is 12:30-8:30 P. M. I eat for eight hours and then fast for 16.
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Once upon a time you could actually unplug and it wasn't, like, a weird thing. Now your friends will say, 'I'm fasting from social media.'
Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.
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.
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.