#fasting

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Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#centuries #combating #death #demon #doom

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

#after #began #crying #day #ever

The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true? ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#fasting #change

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#fasting #intelligent #man #most #nothing

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#confession #fasting #himself #night #passing

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#fasting #god #more #please #praying

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ↗