#fasting

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. ↗

— Carre Otis

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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

#christ #christianity #discipleship #discipline #fasting

Eating three times a day means takingon, almost without respite, the work of assimilation. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#experience

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. ↗

— Euripides

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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

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