Ramadan Quotes 2015: 10 Sayings About Fasting To Share On Twitter, Facebook, Instagram

As Ramadan begins for practicing Muslims, most people will fast from dawn to sunset without water or food. To help get through the month of Ramadan, some quotes about fasting are shared below, courtesy of Brainy Quote.

1. “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

2. “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

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

4. “Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.” --Monica Johnson

5. “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

6. “Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.” --Mahavira

7. “The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.” --Tariq Ramadan

8. “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

9. “Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.” --Tariq Ramadan

10. “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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