Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

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

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God.

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

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body and soul knows of our need to fast for its benefit for our spiritual life, development and our eternity. He granted us the knowledge and manner of fasting. As a kind Father and a wise Teacher, He has recommended fasting for us.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

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

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

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

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.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

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

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with being generous to those in need.

We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our lives. We can start with our reasonable service: prayer, studying, fasting, tithing, fellowshipping, and witnessing.