#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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. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

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

— Horatio Alger

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. ↗

— Nat Turner

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