True Fasting Quotes

#1. True fasting is not just depriving ourselves of privilege but als osharing sacrificially tob ring an end to the cycles of inequality, an end to creation's groaning and the groaning of hungry bellies.

Shane Claiborne

#2. There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

Timothy Findley

#3. I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.

Jenny Hval

#4. Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Ralph Ellison

#5. For eight years I dreamed of fire. Trees ignited as I passed them; oceans burned.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#6. In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.

Spencer W. Kimball

#7. I was very political when JFK ran.

Bob Newhart

#8. Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.

Graham Russell

#9. There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

David Hemenway

#10. Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

Virginia Woolf

#11. Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.

Saint Augustine

#12. I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why ... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.

Doug Harvey

#13. Temptation said that we all dream of committing crimes, but that only the unbalanced make that macabre idea a reality.

Paulo Coelho

#14. Age doesn't matter, unless your cheese.

Jean Paul

#15. 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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. I've been with Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany, for five years - I wanted to escape the competitive dance world and go somewhere where I felt appreciated for my talents. Stateside, it was always kind of a struggle. And the competition? Not into it.

Sarah Hay

#17. Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live.

Richie Norton

#18. I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

Billy Wilder

#19. The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Adalbert De Vogue

#20. I owe my life to my hobbies - especially stamp collecting.

Franklin D. Roosevelt