136 Quotes About Fasting

The goal of any discipline is freedom. If the result is not greater freedom, something is wrong. (Chapter 1)

When our lives begin to change from the inside out, our eating habits will change from the outside in.

Overeating regularly eventually leads to underliving.

Food, the very thing God created to satisfy our physical hunger, has been engineered to stimulate it!

You can feel like you will starve to death if you do not eat within 21 seconds; not eat at all; and still be alive after 21 days.

Each time I forget to feast, I fast in order to remember.

In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts in their rage of hunger. The paper set forth, in horrified language, that some of them had been seventy-two hours without food. I, as I read, had also been seventy-two hours without food; and the difference was simply that they thought they were starving.

The spirituality of the soul is awakening of spirit.

We suffer spiritually each time we reach for a sugar high rather than the Most High. Our sugar fixation stops us from fixing our eyes on Jesus, and hungering for sweet treats gets in the way of our hunger and thirst for Him.