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Definition of Fasting
Fasting

of Fast

Related Definitions:
Fast, Of


Fasting Quotations

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Euripides

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
Hermann Hesse

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
Edwin Louis Cole

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Horatio Alger

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Naguib Mahfouz

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Nat Turner

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Terry Prachett

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.
Robert Rainy

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.
Carre Otis

Fasting Translations

fasting in German is fastend
fasting in Spanish is ayuno
fasting in Swedish is fasta


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