Fasting Quotes

The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

Benjamin Franklin

Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.

J Harold Smith

Fasting is a cure for many diseases.

Dr Tanner

Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.

Joel Fuhrman

The true fasting which should be recommended to all is abstinence from every stimulating kind of food, and the proper use of wholesome, simple food, which God has provided in abundance.

Ellen G White

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.

Adalbert De Vogue

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Dallas Willard

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Mark Twain

There are some who would be benefited more by abstinence from food for a day or two every week than by any amount of treatment or medical advice. To fast one day a week would be of incalculable benefit to them.

Ellen G White

Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

Saint Augustine

Fasting is the greatest remedy - the physician within.

Paracelsus

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.

Rumi

You train your heart to control your body. That's what you do when you fast.

Nouman Ali Khan

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

Bill Bright

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

Saint John Chrysostom

All the fasting in the world will not take the place of simple trust in the word of God.

Ellen G White

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite . . . and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.

Russell M Nelson

The goal of fasting is inner unity.

Thomas Merton

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Francis Quarles

Fasting and prayer are the great barriers to keep out all temptations of intemperance and sin from the minds of men.

Rev Canon Barry

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

John Wesley

The spirit of true fasting and prayer is the spirit which yields mind, heart, and will to God.

Ellen G White

Fasting deals with the two great barriers to the Holy Spirit that are erected by man's carnal nature. These are the stubborn self-will of the soul and the insistent self-gratifying appetites of the body.

Derek Prince

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world's routine.

Jentezen Franklin

Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to healing are removed. Health is the normal state. Most chronic disease is the inevitable consequence of living a lifestyle that places disease-causing stressors on the human organism. Fasting gives the body an interlude without those stressors so that it can speedily repair or accomplish healing that could not otherwise occur in the feeding state.

Joel Fuhrman

Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest.

Arthur Wallis

Fasting will break poverty from your life.

Jentezen Franklin

To become grateful, I must learn that I can handle disappointment and delayed gratification with grace and perseverance. This is why practices such as fasting and simplicity are such powerful tools for transformation. The experience of frustration and disappointment is irreplaceable in the development of a grateful heart.

John Ortberg

Fasting reminds us that we are sustained by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Food does not sustain us; God sustains us.

Richard J Foster

Fasting breaks the spirit of heaviness.

Jentezen Franklin

In many cases of sickness, the very best remedy is for the patient to fast for a meal or two, that the overworked organs of digestion may have an opportunity to rest.

Ellen G White

I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency

Plato

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

Ezra Taft Benson

The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.

Joel Fuhrman

Many times a short period of entire abstinence from food, followed by simple, moderate eating, has led to recovery through nature's own recuperative effort.

Ellen G White

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

John Calvin

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

Joseph B Wirthlin

Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.

Jentezen Franklin

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Dallas Willard

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

Jentezen Franklin

We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, prayer and fasting. We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.

Bonar Law

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.

Thomas S Monson

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

Dorothy Osborne

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.

John Wesley

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

Jentezen Franklin

An abstemious diet for a month or two would convince many sufferers that the path of self-denial is the path to health.

Ellen G White

The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.

Stephen Covey

Health and healing will follow fasting.

Jentezen Franklin