67 Of The Best Fasting Quotes That Will Motivate You

ByMacy Michelle

Are you looking for the best fasting quotes to keep you motivated? We will share the top fasting quotes here!

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Looking for the best fasting quotes? Reading motivational quotes can provide encouragement and motivation. If you need a little boost of encouragement, keep reading and check out these fasting quotes.

The Best Fasting Quotes

1. “Fasting is the single greatest natural healing therapy. It is nature’s ancient, universal ‘remedy’ for many problems.” – Elson Haas, M.D.

2. “Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.” – Rumi

3. “Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.” – Paracelsus

4. “Everyone who does intermittent fasting talks about it as a lifestyle, not a diet. They come for the weight loss, but stay for the health benefits.” – author unknown

5. “Fasting is the first principle of medicine.” – Rumi

6. “Fasting for many people becomes not only a physical but also an emotional and spiritual process.” – Cynthia Thurlow

7. “Fasting is truly a secret source of power.” – Jentezen Franklin

8. “I assert that fasting is the most efficient means for correcting any disease.” – Adolph Mayer, M.D.

9. “Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.” – Joel Fuhrman

10. “The best of all medicines is resting and fasting.” – Benjamin Franklin

11. “You train your heart to control your body. That’s what you do when you fast.” – Nouman Ali Khan

12. “Fasting is not nearly so deadly as feasting.” – J. Harold Smith

13. “I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency.” – Plato

14. “My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.” – Mahatma Gandhi

15. “Fasting for the body is food for the soul.” – Saint John Chrysostom

16. “Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.” – Ezra Taft Benson

17. “Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits.” – Russell M. Nelson

18. “If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.” – Francis Quarles

19. “During a fast you will find out if it is you that controls your thoughts or if it is your thoughts that control you.” – author unknown

20. “Through fasting…I have found perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.” – Upton Sinclair

21. “The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.” – Mahatma Gandhi

22. “Fasting has been practiced throughout history by almost every religion in the world.” – author unknown

23. “The goal of fasting is inner unity.” – Thomas Merton

24. “Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.” – Leonard Ravenhill

25. “Through long years of misinformation, people have been told, ‘Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  It gives you the strength, energy and vitality to do a hard morning’s work, either physical or mentally.”  This is absolutely erroneous!  It is not a true scientific fact.  When you eat a heavy breakfast, through reflex action you feel full and satisfied, but you do not gain straight.  It takes hours for this food to be processed by the digestive system before you can gain any energy or vitality from a big breakfast.  Digestion is a most highly complicated process.“ – Dr. Paul C. Bragg

26. “The discipline of fasting breaks you out of the world’s routine.” – Jentezen Franklin

27. “You’re not going to burn body fat if you’re eating.” – Dr. Jason Fung

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

29. “We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.” Tariq Ramadan

30. “Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness.”  – Hippocrates

More Of The Best Fasting Quotes

31. “When you don’t have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realize you’re lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.” Chris Martin

32. “What if I told you that intermittent fasting was really intermittent eating?” – author unknown

33. “The job of fasting is to supply the body with the ideal environment to accomplish its work of healing.” Joel Fuhrman

34. “Eat a double whopper and no one bats an eyelash. Fast for 16 hours… Everyone loses their minds!” – author unknown

35. “Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.” – Mya

36. “Fasting is like spring cleaning for your body.” – Jentezen Franklin

37. “Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.” – Tariq Ramadan

38. “Intermittent fasting – the diet for people too lazy to cook a bunch of meals during the day!” – Gin Stephens

39. “Therapeutic fasting is not a mystical or magical cure. It works because the body has within it the capacity to heal when the obstacles to healing are removed. Health is the normal state. Most chronic disease is the inevitable consequence of living a lifestyle that places disease-causing stressors on the human organism. Fasting gives the body an interlude without those stressors so that it can speedily repair or accomplish healing that could not otherwise occur in the feeding state.” – Joel Fuhrman 

40. “He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well.” – English Proverb

41. “The reason for fasting is to understand the relationship between what’s you and what’s the accumulative body.” – Jaggi Vasudev

42. “In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then rebuilds anew when eating is resumed.” – Herbert M. Sheldon

43. “Most people believe fasting is detrimental to their health. The truth is quite the opposite – there are significant health benefits.” – Fung and Moore, The Complete Guide To Fasting

44. “The power of when you eat…is stronger than what you eat.” – Megan Ramos

45. “Working out in conjunction with fasting may lead to a leaner, more muscular, energized you. Just remember, it’s not exercise alone that’s helping you lose weight. It’s the fasting.” – Fung, Mayer and Ramos, Life In The Fasting Lane

46. “Fasting is a calming experience. It is restful…relieves anxiety and tension. It is rarely depressing and it is often downright exhilarating.” – Alan Cott, M.D.

47. “Fasting is a process. Consistency is what makes the impossible at first, into our new normal.” – The Fasting Method

48. “Fasting is a positive, healing thing that I GET to do for my body.” – author unknown

49. “Symptoms while fasting can be that your body is actually repairing.” – Dr. Mindy Pelz

50. “Intermittent fasting enhances the ability of nerve cells to repair DNA.” – Mark Mattson

51. “Intermittent fasting initiates positive hormonal and metabolic changes in our bodies that make it very different than low calorie diets.” – Gin Stephens, Fast Feast Repeat

52. “Your body has two fuel sources: food and stored food. You’re switching them when you fast.” – Dr. Jason Fung

53. “Even though autophagy and fasting will promote quick recovery and take care of the inflammation, you need enough sleep, calories, healthy fats, and collagen for adequate healing.” – Patricia Cook

54. “Study the health benefits of intermittent fasting until you understand how powerful IF can be. This gives you confidence that what you are doing is healthy for your body.” – Gin Stephens, Fast Feast Repeat

55. “Hunger is the first element of self-discipline. If you can control what you eat and drink, you can control everything else.” – Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

56. “Circadian fasting is a less extreme version of a standard intermittent fast. While IF diets – like 16/8 fast – are very popular, it’s not what I would recommend to a first-time faster. Whereas circadian fasting is a great place to begin – it times your meals according to your circadian clock and focuses less of number hours of fasting.” – Dr. Amy Shah

57. “Fasting is not so much a treatment of illness but a treatment of wellness.” – Dr. Jason Fung

58. “You burn fat, rather than sugar, in a fasted state.” – Maria Emmerich

59. “Intermittent fasting is incredibly useful in aiding fat loss, preventing cancer, building muscle, and increasing resilience. Done correctly, it’s one of the most painless high-impact ways to live longer.” – Dave Asprey

60. “The price of fasting is zero.” – Dr. Jason Fung

61. “Instead of medicine, fast for a day.” – Plutarch

62. “On fasting days, picture your ideal body and remember that your body is dipping into its fat reserve for energy and repairing damaged cells. Let that knowledge encourage and support you. Feel your food addiction weakening its hold on you.” – David Ortner

63. “Whenever fasting is mentioned, there is always the same eye-rolling response: Starvation? That’s the answer? No. Fasting is completely different. Starvation is the involuntary absence of food. It is neither deliberate or controlled. Starving people have no idea when and where their next meal will come from. Fasting, however, is the voluntary abstinence from food for spiritual, health or other reasons. Fasting may be done for any period of time, from a few hours to a few months. In a sense, fasting is a part of everyday life. The term “breakfast” is the meal that breaks the fast- which we do daily.” – Dr. Jason Fung, The Obesity Code

64. “Intermittent fasting is a lifestyle. It isn’t something that you start today and then end when you get to some arbitrary “goal weight.” Something you start and then stop is a DIET. Intermittent fasting isn’t a diet – as I said, it’s a lifestyle.” – Gin Stephens

65. “One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like.” – Chris Mohr

66. “Intermittent fasting definitely and massively increases autophagy.  And thanks to our caveman history, it thrived.  In times of little food, lysosomes would race around the body looking for damaged cells, pre-diseased cells, and cells which weren’t doing much.  It would chop them apart – into their smallest parts – and either burn them for energy, or use them to repair other areas.  Simply, it would perform miracles without any outside help.” – Robert Skinner

67. “Life is short. Fasting makes it seem… longer.” – author unknown

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