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"If he who was the Light of the world fought for his fire with fasting, is there something to be learned here for our flickering wicks?" -John Piper from A Hunger for God
"The almost universal absence of regular fasting for the Lord's return is a witness to our satisfaction with the presence of the world and the absence of the Lord. This is not the way it should be." -John Piper from A Hunger for God
"Surely, this hunger for Christ needs to be restored in the comfortable church of the prosperous West. The absence of fasting is indicative of our comfort with the way things are. No one fasts to express how content they are. People only fast out of dissatisfaction. "The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast" (Matthew 15:9). The absence of fasting is the measure of our contentment with the absence of Christ." -John Piper from A Hunger for God
“Don't fast by the mouth, but also by the eye, the ear, the feet, the hands—all members of your body. Let your hands fast by being pure from stealing.... Let your feet fast by not running to watch things you shouldn't…. Let your eyes fast, being taught not to look at things they shouldn't, and especially not to stare at beautiful women…..Let the ear fast... in refusing to listen to evil talk and rumors.... Let the mouth, too, fast from disgraceful talk.”—Chrysostom (c. 347-407)
“An over-fed Christian will be more necessary to bears and lions, perchance, than to God.” —Tertullian (c. 160 – c. 225)
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