Quotes about Fasting

To say this once again, the focus of the Bible on fasting is not on what we get from fasting or on motivating people to fast in order to acquire something, but instead lands squarely on responding to sacred moments in life.

Overall, then, fasting is how Israel responded when God's glory was dishonored, when God's will was thwarted, when God's people suffered defeat, or when one of God's people experienced sickness, tragedy, or death. God's people, in effect then, took up the posture of God toward grievous events when they fasted.

As the priest and Levite thought they could follow the Torah and not offer aid to the stranded, dying man (Luke 10:25—37), so Isaiah's community thought they could abstain from food and pass by the needs of others on their way to God. Fasting never stands alone. Fasting, if it is genuine, brings us into a communal spirituality because it is a response to the lack of justice in the community.

The discipline of fasting releases the anointing, the favor, and the blessing of God in the life of a Christian.

Don't allow the enemies in your life to cause you to focus more on your appetite or circumstances than on the promises of God that are released when you employ the powerful weapon of fasting.

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Fasting is not just a physical discipline; it can be a spiritual feast.

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

In most Christian circles you will rarely hear fasting mentioned, and few will have read anything about it. And yet it's mentioned in Scripture more times even than something as important as baptism (about seventy-seven times for fasting to seventy-five for baptism).

Without a clear biblical purpose, fasting becomes an end in itself.

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