Fasting quotes
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"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!"
"Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion."
"Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable."
"God knows there is never a convenient time to fast."
"When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly."
"Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers."
"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."
"If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion."
"The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them."
"Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint."
"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."
"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."
"There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days."
