Top 31 Fasts Quotes
#1. The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
John Wesley
#2. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: By his good character a believer will attain the degree of one who prays during the night and fasts during the day.
Abu Dawood
#3. There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.
Jentezen Franklin
#4. Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.
Catherine Of Genoa
#5. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#6. Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
Charles Kingsley
#7. Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.
Edward Gibbon
#9. How much does the universe weigh, when it fasts for infinity?
Akiane Kramarik
#10. He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.
Philip Neri
#11. Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Prayers, fasts, everything he had practiced because he had been taught to do so, suddenly seemed new to him - weapons in a glorious war for which he longed. Perhaps he would become a monk - or a priest
Sigrid Undset
#13. If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
Ja'far Al-Sadiq
#14. His name meant "He Who Fasts for a Hundred Days," and in person he more than lived up to his name. He was so thin that he looked like skin stretched over bone. While Sister Aziza wore the hijab, Boqol Sawm wore a Saudi robe, a bit short, so that it showed his bony ankles.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#15. When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
Willa Cather
#17. Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.
Charles Hodge
#18. What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
Philip Sidney
#21. People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
#22. Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
Patricia Polacco
#23. In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
Charles William Eliot
#24. I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#25. I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing
Francine Rivers
#27. Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.
Kellan Lutz
#28. You will fail at this. Often. Why is that a problem? In fact, this is a boon. It's a boon because when others fail to be remarkable or make a difference or share their art or have an impact, they will give up.
Seth Godin
#29. I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
Craig Brown
#30. This is a warring universe. To survive here, one must know its ways.
Harold Klemp
#31. Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people.
Joseph Wambaugh
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