Fasting Quotes

Yom Kippur is about personal and community transgressions. The fasting remains a compelling element. The purpose of the ritual observance is to change our ethical observance. - Barry Schwartz

With 1 billion Muslims, 16 million Jews and (millions) of Orthodox Christians, that's a lot of people fasting around the world. - Tom Ryan

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. - St. Jerome

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. - Bible

We still have three individuals who are hard-core. While they are eating, they are fasting. All detainees are drinking. All detainees have eaten meals. - Michael Lehnert

We had given him up for dead but in this fasting month (of Ramadan), Allah showed us a little mercy by giving us at least his body. - Ahmed Khan

We commemorate the same event at a different time with our own traditions, by fasting. - Rizwan Jaka

There's a deeply felt human instinct that uses fasting as a universal language with God. - Tom Ryan

Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me? / And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, / And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. - Bible