#fasting

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 Vogüé

#fasting #change

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#fasting #intelligent #man #most #nothing

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#confession #fasting #himself #night #passing

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#fasting #god #more #please #praying

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#die #fasting #lives #upon #will

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#clearly #fasting #fellow #fellow man #head

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. ↗

— Carre Otis

#am #controlling #everything #fasting #go

He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Värmland boy needed tears to wash it away. Distrust that love and joy, beauty and strength blossomed on the earth, distrust in himself, all must go, all did go, for it was Easter; the dead lived and the Spirit of Fasting would never again come into power. ↗

— Selma Lagerlöf

#trust #weeping #beauty