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
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
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards
