Zitat des Tages über Fasten / Fasting:
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.
Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
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.
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.
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.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
For Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS, the holy month of Ramadan - a time of fasting and prayer for the vast majority of Muslims - is seen as a particularly auspicious time to launch terrorist attacks.
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.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
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.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
In anything, there has to be that moment of fasting, really, in order to enjoy the feast.
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
Juice fasting destroys your metabolic rate. I see a lot of women who are like, 'Oh, I lost seven pounds and then I gained 10.' That's not what detoxification is about.
