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We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.


Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Fasting works faster than prayer!
тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.
MONICA JOHNSON Prayer and fasting are the main weapons against the psychological attacks of the devil.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in praye...
HORATIO ALGER It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Life's irony;Sometimes the act of benevolence has the keys to open the doors that prayer & fasting d...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplication, with fasting, and sackcloth...
BIBLE Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
QURAN We live unto Him, so committing our service to the Lord is the first and foremost priority of our li...
MONICA JOHNSON Fasting does not necessarily mean to abstain from food & drinks only,but to deny yourself of the lux...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenome...
JONATHAN SACKS Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in soc...
NAT TURNER When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
SAINT JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms....
TARIQ RAMADAN I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit...
JOHN WESLEY He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
DAVID BLAINE He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that lives on hope will die fasting.
AMERICAN PROVERB I approach this project in the spirit of a fast: an intentional reduction, a deliberate abstinence t...
JEN HATMAKER Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him ou...
BIBLE Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
MAHAVIRA Fast which is good to Allah and that fasting which Daud (AS) observed.
HADITH Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint.
DANISH PROVERB A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God subm...
EDWIN LOUIS COLE But as Garcia said, you know, the '60s ain't over till the fat lady gets high. And that means that w...
KEN KESEY Life's three events that also pains the rich; exercise, fasting & child birth.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He needed so much to weep. All the distrust of life which misfortunes had brought to the little Vär...
SELMA LAGERLöF If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do
HERMANN HESSE Lenten fasting is not so much a denial of our bodies as it is a heightened awareness that our spirit...
DAVID L. HATTON Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blo...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Even with fasting and prayers you still need wisdom. At the root of every great accomplishment is wi...
PATIENCE JOHNSON Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.
EZRA TAFT BENSON Our whole ward will be fasting for the family. We fast whenever there is a special concern for someo...
MITCH LAYNE You do not make ground breaking discoveries in science by fasting , you have to pay the price of wor...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie.
It is not the banquet of the ...
JOHN PIPER We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in...
TARIQ RAMADAN If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
ABRAHAM CAHAN Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It i...
MAHATMA GANDHI Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing so...
HENRI NOUWEN Yom Kippur is about personal and community transgressions. The fasting remains a compelling element....
BARRY SCHWARTZ Down on your knees, And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Orthodoxy is like an abyss of beauty that's just endless. I have read the Bible many times. But ...
TROY POLAMALU Most of us, people live life in extreme. On one extreme some people think they live for eating, on t...
GIRDHAR JOSHI Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celeb...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON For some people, fasting is a very challenging thing to do to your body when your body is not used t...
JODI R. GODFREY Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what in...
BIBLE When you don't have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you're lucky to ...
CHRIS MARTIN Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is be...
MAHATMA GANDHI Look at our fathers in the old days, living masterpieces as they are and shining examples of true re...
THOMAS à KEMPIS What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who do...
SAINT BASIL I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to la...
CARRE OTIS Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is t...
EDITH STEIN The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his wil...
P. B. BROWN The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the f...
JOEL FUHRMAN, M.D. The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ou...
TARIQ RAMADAN Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of pr...
E. M. BOUNDS In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ...
IYANLA VANZANT Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph;...
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation God is always present, always available. At...
JACQUES ELLUL Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.
ADONIRAM JUDSON Prayer is man's greatest power!
W. CLEMENT STONE Prayer is not complicated, but we make it that way,
DOUG HALL From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting an...
M. STANTON EVANS A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journ...
J. C. RYLE All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for if it be true that is reported, the...
PLINY THE ELDER (CAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS) Without prayer, life is a panic.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our en...
GEORGE MULLER It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our en...
GEORGE MULLER Purify, purify.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.
JOHN BUNYAN Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer
MARY BAKER EDDY Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
MARY BAKER EDDY Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT I would be at a complete loss as to what prayer to use in such a diverse community. What prayer coul...
BILL BIAS Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
KARL BARTH In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
JOHN BUNYAN In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
MAHATMA GANDHI The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I r...
MARY QUANT God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces ...
JOEL C. ROSENBERG Prayer is powerful, but prayer combined with action creates miracles.
EILEEN ANGLIN There are almost always books from each of our imprints that center around the theme of prayer in an...
JEFF HAMILTON Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmar...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
BILLY GRAHAM Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expressi...
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B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh...
B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ...
B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u...
B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er...
B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an...
B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th...
B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are...
B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ...
B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug...
B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ...
B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo...
B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g...
B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music...
B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil...
B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big...
B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,...
B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com...
B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun...
B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p...
B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c...
B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here...
B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,...
B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha...
B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o...
B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ...
B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P...
B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'...
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