[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