Quotes about Fast

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1—11; Mark 1:12—13; Luke 4:1—13).

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

I am coming soon. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.

Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

By now much time had passed, and the voyage had already become dangerous because it was after the Fast. So Paul advised them,

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

There are only two philosophies of life: one is first the feast, then the headache; the other is first the fast and then the feast. Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice are always sweetest and most enduring.