He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world. – Al-Ghazali
He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. – English Proverb
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. – St. Jerome
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
Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself. – Rumi
Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. – Ezra Taft Benson
What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? – Basil
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. – Mahatma Gandhi
The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith
Fasting today makes the food good tomorrow. – German Proverb
A fast is better than a bad meal. – Irish Proverb
Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation. – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience
The very act of eating can be exhausting; it takes a lot of energy to digest food. When the body is freed from that chore, it naturally feels lighter and much more vibrant. – Allan Cott
Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. – Danish Proverb
[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens. – Thomas Merton
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. – Athenaeus of Naucratis
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. – Benjamin Franklin
Fasting of the body is food for the soul. – John Chrysostom
[H]appy is he who has fasted in sincerity and truth! Happy he whose humbled heart has expanded in love! – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), “The Fasting God Regards Not,” Evangelical 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, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience
