Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

I know that when I was on my hunger strike, I reacted very negatively to people telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin — and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

To say that I could manipulate one of the men who has shown the most courage before the Cuban government, who gets beaten every day, who did a hunger strike that freed political prisoners... I think that's absurd.

Post-bifurcation, I raised my voice and sat on an indefinite fast in Guntur in October 2015. Eight days into the fast, I was forcibly evicted by the police on the pretext that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was coming to Amaravati.

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!

We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon.