Periodic fasting can help
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. Ezra Taft Benson
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Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. Ezra Taft Benson
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love. Euripides
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape. Elise M. Boulding
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. You can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify your heart. Elif Safak
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God’s commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. Edwin Louis Cole
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 Dostoevsky
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence. Friedrich Nietzsche
Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They’re just different choices, different videos that you’ve selected to view tonight. Frederick Lenz
If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both. Francis Quarles
What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can’t starve a fasting man, you can’t steal from someone who has no money, you can’t ruin someone who hates prestige. Francis of Assisi