Religious Fasting Quotes

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

I’m not a good faster. My friends have visions of God, I have visions of hamburgers. The only time I watch the Food Channel is when I’m fasting. It’s pitiful. We did a 40 day fast. I bought 29 cookbooks. I don’t cook, but the pictures! I bought a deep-fryer and we don’t eat deep-fried food!

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

I like when people give up chocolate for Lent. Ooh, just like being nailed to a cross.

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.

The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery and self-control, and also a deeper awareness of how really dependent we are.

I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out.