19 Fasting Quotes for You to Enjoy

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin

Hope Will He Die Lives Fasting

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. Euripides

Love Good Man Down Knees Thank Heaven Your Fasting

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett

Death Good Prayer Evil Thought Ways Tried Eat About Seemed No-One Good Works Over Until Forces Demon Up Doom Centuries Mankind Shotgun Many Works Fasting

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. Tariq Ramadan

Eyes Ego Enemies Challenge Looking Own Others Our Ourselves See Potential Take Outside Self Glance Instead Counting Inward Greatest Greatest Challenge Turn Us Measure Fasting

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life. Jonathan Sacks

Life God Time Food Day Prayer Book Our Collectively Introspection Rarest Atonement Written Instead Without Pray Repeatedly Sins Festival Confess Holy Fasting Phenomena Jewish

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful. Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prayer Powerful Coupled Mighty Fasting

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment. Tariq Ramadan

Giving Master Our Alive Ourselves Must Reconcile Through Outside Step Environment Mastery Rediscover Around Educate Egoism Us Requires Fasting

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. Ashley Graham

Good Me Happy Care Living Every Took Tried Eating Shakes More Cabbage Weight Felt Came Soup Diet Frozen Meals Realized Then Body Whole Fasting

When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous. Chris Martin

Life Music Food Day You Will Out Joyous Makes Very Just After Realise Next Your Lucky Fasting

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. David Blaine

Isolation Idea Obsessed Fasting

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. Horatio Alger

Prayer Confession Himself Passing Candidate Required Prepare Fasting Night

The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what's you and what's the accumulative body. Jaggi Vasudev

Relationship You Between Understand Body Reason Fasting

'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. John Romaniello

Time Freedom Simple Healthy Programs Rules Eat Pretty Foods Simply Like Period Well Very Often Then Basic Fasting Incorporate

From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship. M. Stanton Evans

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. Maysoon Zayid

Death Faith Sunset People Problem Sunrise Cake Three Live Enough Starve Months Would Seem No Problem Had Piece Concerned However Off Up Very Did Grew Explain Them Whole Fasting Fat

For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan - a time of fasting and prayer for the vast majority of Muslims - is seen as a particularly auspicious time to launch terrorist attacks. Peter Bergen

Time Prayer Seen Month Muslims Launch Vast Vast Majority Attacks Particularly Majority Terrorist Holy Groups 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. Robert Rainy

Life Great World Value Manners Separation Christian Prohibited Marriages More Martyrdom Higher Had Great Value Were Celibacy Pitch Them Strained Required Standard Christian Life Second Fasting Set Careful

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. Stijn Streuvels

Day Half Worse Laughing Followed More Like Crying Felt Sound Began Than Forgotten After While Ever Wickedness Fasting

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