A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.
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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.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.
The use of hunger as a weapon of political control is a crime against humanity.
To hunger is to be alive and to hope.
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
If you don't feel hunger, you don't succeed at anything.
If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.
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.