Fasting Quotes

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin

Hope, Die, Lives

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

Love, Good, Down

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Hermann Hesse

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Makes, Fast

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Nat Turner

Time, Great, Society

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, Time, God

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.
Naguib Mahfouz

Important, Prayer, Treat

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.
Carre Otis

Diet, Everything, Through

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
Abraham Cahan

God, Study, Please

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, Christian

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 Prachett

Good, Death, Evil

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

Idea, Isolation, Obsessed

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

Night, Prayer, Himself

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

After, While, Felt

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