In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed. – Herbert M. Shelton

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More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. – Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself. – Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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