Fasting Can Be

Abstaining

Therapeutic

A discipline

Self-sacrifice

Food for the soul

Self-renunciation

Going without food

The greatest remedy

The physician within

Delaying gratification

A cure for many diseases

A gymnasium for athletes

A weapon for the valiant

Eating little or no food

Abstention or self-denial

The best of all medicines

The opposite of indulgence

A good safeguard for the soul

The first principle of medicine

Not nearly so deadly as feasting

Like spring cleaning for our body

A powerful tool for transformation

A steadfast companion for the body

Training our heart to control our body

Abstaining from food, beyond the usual time

Omitting to take the usual meals, for a time

An important natural part of the recovery process

Not giving free reign to the desires of the flesh

Not complete without prayer - it's simply going hungry

The wilful refrainment from eating and sometimes drinking

Going for a certain length of time without eating anything

A means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control

A means of developing a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are

Voluntary abstinence from food, as a religious mortification or humiliation

Controlling the flesh and abstaining from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God

Abstinence from food or drink or both for health, ritualistic, religious, or ethical purposes

Cutting off superfluous and unnecessary desires, subduing our proud and wanton will and chastising it with obedience

A subordinate aid to prayer, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer

Abstaining from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction

Abstinence from every stimulating kind of food, and the proper use of wholesome, simple food, which God has provided in abundance

Either total or partial abstinence from customary food, with a view to mortify the appetites, or to express grief and affliction on account of some calamity, or to deprecate an expected evil