After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.
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.
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
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.
For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
By fasting we are losing nothing financially we are blessing ourselves physically and we are gaining greater spiritual power to withstand the temptations that we meet in life and, best of all, in giving to the poor we are practicing the very essence of our religion.
How one man eats into another's pride,
While pride is fasting in his wantonness!
Come--no crown ye shall have for your thirst and your fasting,
But the kissed lips of Love and fair life everlasting!
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite ... and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
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