FASTING
If we only ate about half what is ordinarily eaten, we should probably all of us be
in better health; and if, occasionally, we put ourselves on short commons, not because
there is any virtue in that, but in order to get our brains more clear, and to help our
hearts to rest more fully upon the Saviour, we should find that prayer and fasting
have great power. WE48
And what is fasting for? That seems the difficult point. It is evidently accessory to the
peculiar continuance in prayer, practised oftentimes by our Lord, and advised by
him to his disciples. Not a kind of religious observance, in itself meritorious, but a
habit, when associated with the exercise of prayer, unquestionably helpful. 549.35
I believe, literally, that some of you would be a great deal the better if you did
occasionally have a whole day of fasting and prayer. There is a lightness that comes
over the frame, especially of bulky people like myself; we begin to feel ourselves quite
light and ethereal. 2454.104