Fasting Quotes

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.

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.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.

Health and healing will follow fasting.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

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

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

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.

A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.

Fasting (is) for the maintainance and firmness of your sincerity.

Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

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.

Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!

Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

Fasting keeps you sensitive to His (God) Spirit, enabling you to live holy.

Begin a fast, and trust God to work that in your heart.

Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

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.

Blessing will happen to you and your family throughout the year because you faster in January.

Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

Fasting is a medicine.

Temples are more than stone and mortar. They are filled with faith and fasting. They are built of trials and testimonies. They are sanctified by sacrifice and service.

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.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.

Fast, worship, and seek Him.

Regarding Fasting: Have the faith to bind the Lord.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight.

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.

Fasting will also overcome sexual additions and demonic powers.

When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly.

God knows there is never a convenient time to fast.