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Letter "F" » fasting
«If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do»
«I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America»
Author: John Wesley
(Evangelist)
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«Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots»
«Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving procures us admission.»
«Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.»
«My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.»
«He that lives upon Hope, dies fasting»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«HIBERNATE, v.i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it had to try twice before it can cast a shadow. Three or four centuries ago, in England, no fact was better attested than that swallows passed the winter months in the mud at the bottom of their brooks, clinging together in globular masses. They have apparently been compelled to give up the custom and account of the foulness of the brooks. Sotus Ecobius discovered in Central Asia a whole nation of people who hibernate. By some investigators, the fasting of Lent is supposed to have been originally a modified form of hibernation, to which the Church gave a religious significance; but this view was strenuously opposed by that eminent authority, Bishop Kip, who did not wish any honors denied to the memory of the Founder of his family.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting. (Matthew 17:21)»
«Thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love: For I must tell you friendly in your ear, - Sell when you can: you are not for all markets.»
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