Quotes about Fasting

Health and healing will follow fasting.

As a way to practice saying "no," consider small fasts. You could give up food, desserts, computer games, or other activities important to you. This is not a way to punish yourself for what you have done. It is simply a way to have more practice at self-control. Remember that self-control is a skill that develops with practice.

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.

Fasting is truly a secret source of power.

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

YOM KIPPUR. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises.

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.