Fasting quotes

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There are some who would be benefited more by

abstinence from food for a day or two every week

then by any amount of treatment or medical advice .

To fast one day a week would be of incalculable benefit

to them .

Ellen White founder of

Seventh Day Adventism 1864

Experience has shown that most people profit from a weekly

36 hour fast. After a few experiences of this very brief fasting

period, most people fine the weekly 36 hour fast convenient,

agreeable, restful and beneficial- and they experience no

debilitating aftereffects

 

Hannah Allen 1978

 

Man lives on one fourth of what he eats.

One the other three fourths lives his doctor

 

inscription on an Egyptian pyramid

3800 BC

 

When fasting, even for one day, stay in bed if possible and

pamper yourself. Relax with your eyes closed, or read inspiring

articles and books and take a leisurely sn bath. By the cessation

of most activities, in addtion to the physiological rest secured

from abstaning from food, you will obtain restoration of health.

Fasting one day a week gives most people physical and mental

stamina to live properly all week long

 

Dr Virginia Vetrano 1988

 

Dine with little, sup with less; do better still sleep supperless

 

Ben Franklin

 

When you are on a fast of 3 days or more, you are really on

Mother Natures's and Gods miracle operating table.

Nature is ridding you of the waste, mucus, toxins and other

foreign substances in your body

 

Paul Bragg

 

Moreover when ye fast, be not of sad countenance, that thou

appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father, which is in

secret and thy Father shall reward thee openly

 

Matthew 6 The Bible

 

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals

 

Ben Franklin

 

Abstain from food and drink, from sunrise to sundown, and beware lest

desire deprive you of this grace that is appointed in the Book.

[Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶17]

Bahai scripture

 

Fasting is an institution as old as Adam. It has been resorted to for

self-purification or for some ends, noble as well as ignoble

 

Gandhi

 

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

Fasting

Jerome, St.

c342-420 Croatian Christian Ascetic Scholar

 

 

 

OF ABSTINENCE: A man while fasting must abstain from all bad

expressions and must not even resent an injury.

Author :

Prophet Muhammad Islam

 

Quote 13: " Just try to explain to someone what the art of fasting is.

No one who does not feel it can be made to grasp what it means. The

beautiful placards became dirty and illegible, they were ripped down,

no one thought of replacing them; the little board showing the tally

of days fasted, which at first had been scrupulously changed each day,

had now long stayed unaltered, for after the first few weeks the staff

had grown weary of even this little task; and so the fasting-artist

did indeed go fasting on, as he had once dreamed of doing, but no one

counted the days, no one, not even the fasting-artist himself, knew

how great his achievement was, and his hearty grew heavy. And once in

a while some casual passer-by should stop, ridicule the outdated

number of the board and talk about fraudulence, that in its way the

stupidest lie that ever indifference and inborn malice could invent,

for it was not the fasting-artist who was cheating, he was working

honestly, but the world was cheating him out of his reward. " A

Fasting-artist, pp. 199-200

 

Franz Kafka

 

It is possible to break a fast with any food available. Either whole

fruits or whole vegetables may be used. In order not to overconsume

food, we have found it advisable to weigh the food for the first few

days.

 

Dr. Virginia Vetrano, who has been my able associate for a number of

years, has been breaking fasts on whole foods for several years and

finds that in most cases it is far superior to breaking the fast on

juices, as was formerly advised. She reasoned that animals in the wild

have no juicers or blenders and therefore have to break their fasts

naturally on whole foods. Why should man be an exception?

 

Using her knowledge of physiology, she further reasoned that the bulk

in the food is necessary to promote both peristalsis and mixing

contractions in the stomach and intestines. Bulk is also necessary to

promote secretion of the digestive juices of the stomach and

intestines. The bulk of the food touching the stomach and intestinal

walls is the stimulus for muscular contraction as well as for proper

digestive secretions. Because of this, solid food is digested and

handled more efficiently than juices. It is held in the stomach and

intestines long enough for proper digestion and absorption, whereas

juices, lacking this bulk, are hurried along the digestive tract.

Lacking in bulk, juices do not occasion strong peristaltic waves and

do not elicit the gastrocolic reflex as strongly as slid foods.

Because of these facts, when the fast is broken on juices the first

bowel movement after a fast is delayed. When solid foods are used to

break the fast, bowel movements are re-established much earlier.

 

Dr Herbert Shelton

from Fasting Can Save your life

fasted over 50,000 patients

 

" Your mind, your thinking, your ideals, your aspirations and your

philosophy changes fundamentally in such a way as to beggar

description " .

 

" Your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life,

leaving it all behind you. For the first time you will feel a

vibration

of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that

shakes you delightfully " .

 

" You will learn and realize that fasting and superior fasting (and not

volumes of psychology and philosophy) is the real and only key to a

superior life; to the revelation of a superior world, and to the

spiritual world " .

Arnold Ehret author of Mucusless

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