Words matter. These are the best Fasting Quotes from famous people such as Mahavira, KiKi Layne, Stephen Hough, Stijn Streuvels, Tariq Ramadan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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.’
In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day’s fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what’s you and what’s the accumulative body.
Diet-wise, I practice intermittent fasting, keeping me alert, as the body is using up its energy stores. It keeps my diet in check, so I’m just on black coffee and water, maybe a fruit round 1 P. M.
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
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.
I knew in my heart that it was right to go on a mission, but it required a lot of fasting and prayer to make the decision.Now that I am returned, I realize even more that I made the right decision.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.
I was practicing intermittent fasting while I was in prison. My window of intermittent fasting was between 16 and 17 hours on the weekdays, and 18 and 19 hours on the weekends.
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
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.
Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that’s just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But after fasting, and being baptized Orthodox, it’s like reading a whole new Bible. You see the depth behind the words so much more clearly.
The night before my mastectomy, I had done my best to keep my mind off of the impending procedure. My family and I went to the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game, where I binged on pizza and ice cream and took full advantage of the doctor’s advice to eat up the night before since I had to begin fasting at midnight.
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Yes I believe detoxing and fasting can be very healthy for a period of time.
I tried every diet, from living on cabbage soup to fasting to Weight Watchers, and then came the frozen meals and the shakes. I realized that the more I took care of my body, eating what was good for me, then I felt happy and whole.
We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
I’m kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it’s at night – so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I’m full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don’t eat anything that you couldn’t find, you know, 10,000 years ago.
Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
‘Freedom dieters’ often do well with programs that incorporate pretty basic rules, like intermittent fasting – simply don’t eat for X period of time, then eat healthy foods. Very simple.
The people that I grew up with had no problem with my faith. They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to death during Ramadan. I would explain to them that I have enough fat to live off of for three whole months, so fasting from sunrise to sunset is a piece of cake.
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
My mom is spiritual, and she always starves herself in the name of fasting. I don’t like it. I always fight with her for not taking care of her health, and say that God has nothing to do with starving. But she knows how much I love her.
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.
