When You Fast Quotes

“If we neglect fasting, our spiritual life will always be mediocre. We will be weak in the combat against our passions, we will easily succumb to temptation, and we will never truly overcome our inherent selfishness and self-indulgence.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. Let no one try to separate them, they cannot be separated. Follow these teachings if you want peace in your life.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“The Chaplet of the Holy Fast”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Dr. Elaine Rancatore has also found that fasting gives the digestive system a chance to rest and to do repairs. Specifically the liver has a chance to rest, because when one is fasting, the liver can focus on detoxification and breaking down toxins in the body.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Medical Benefits of Fasting Here are a few medical benefits from an article from John Hopkins Health Review Spring Summer 2016. Mark Mattson is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and also serves as chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. According to the research conducted by him and others, cutting your energy intake by fasting several days a week might help your brain ward off neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s while at the same time improving memory and mood. Mattson explains that every time you eat, glucose is stored in your liver as glycogen, which takes about 10 to 12 hours to be depleted. After the glycogen is used up, your body starts burning fats, which are converted to ketone bodies, acidic chemicals used by neurons as energy. Ketones promote positive changes in the structure of synapses important for learning, memory, and overall brain health. But if you eat three meals a day with snacks between, your body doesn’t have the chance to deplete the glycogen stores in your liver, and the ketones aren’t produced.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“In the fasting prayer, it’s important to stay focused on your particular intention and what or who you are fasting for. This task permits you to fight all temptation by realizing the purpose behind your effort at fasting. Take your time when you add your intentions. The more specific they are, the more you’ll be grounded in them and find the strength to fast for them later in the day.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Once you commit yourself to prayer and fasting, the temptations to abandon are going to be strong. As you fast, you will find that these temptations may seem stronger than ever before, and that’s because they are. It was only when Jesus went into the desert and fasted for 40 days that he was first tempted three times by Satan. So we can most certainly expect the same, even the identical temptations. Just like Jesus, Satan will tempt your hunger. So prayer and preparation for the upcoming temptations will determine how well you do. Remember that the evil one does not want you to fast, and he is afraid of those who fast. Remember that the Lord’s invitation is not only to fast, but to pray. God is calling you to a more”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“In Father Slavko’s book, Fast with the Heart, he states, “Today by living on bread and water, man retains his freedom. He does not become a slave to material things. In his fasting, man is free to love, free to forgive, and free to live in peace.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“of the best documents ever written on fasting is a document that was written by Pope Benedict, his 2009 Lenten Message on Fasting. The Holy Father says, “I wish to focus my reflections especially on the value and meaning of fasting.” Then he said, “Jesus, too, through prayer and fasting, prepared Himself for the mission that lay before Him, marked at the start by a serious battle with the tempter.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“As you fast, you will find that temptations may seem stronger than ever. That’s because they are. The evil one is afraid of those who fast. It was only when Jesus went into the desert and fasted for 40 days that he was first tempted three times by Satan, so we can most certainly expect the same.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“One thing the demon loves to do is to use other people against us, even the ones closest to us, our spouses, brothers, sisters, children, friends — anyone who might be weak and might give an opening to the influence of the demon.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Men, do not blame the women because it’s our job is to protect, and that means to spiritually protect. That should be our priority.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Saint John Vianney said this, “Oh, my children, how sad it is! Three-quarters of those who are Christians labor for nothing but to satisfy this body, which will soon be buried and corrupted, while they do not give a thought to their poor soul, which must be happy or miserable for all eternity.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Our Lady tells us, "You have forgotten that with prayer and fasting, you can ward off wars, suspend natural laws." By combining prayer and fasting, we increase the power of our prayers especially when praying for a special or urgent intention.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“I ask Him through prayer and fasting to take away the sins of sloth, lust, power, pride, idleness, and many others. I ask Him to replace those vices with virtues.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Sixty years ago, the Church obliged her members to fast each day of Lent. We had one meal a day for 40 days. No fasting on Sunday — which was and is considered a feast day, to recognize the resurrection of Jesus. The graces from this fast were unbelievable; many prayers were answered”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Here are other tools Father Ripperger recommended against the demonic: 1. Consecrate all things to Our Lady and be specific. All things are family, friends, work, all tasks, and projects. 2. Pray before every encounter. 3. Pray the Seven Sorrows Devotion and the Rosary, and ask Our Lady to reveal what is keeping the person you’re praying for from her Son, Jesus. This will protect your family. Our Lady, through this devotion, will reveal things to you as a way of grace. 4. Pray the binding prayer below. All demons are afraid of any authority or command in Jesus’ name. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by the power of His cross, His blood and His resurrection, I bind you Satan, the spirits, powers and forces of darkness, the nether world, and the evil forces of nature. I take authority over all curses, hexes, demonic activity and spells directed against me, my relationships, ministry endeavors, finances, and the work of my hands; and I break them by the power and authority of the risen Lord Jesus Christ. I stand with the power of the Lord God Almighty to bind all demonic interaction, interplay and communications between spirits sent against me, and send them directly to Jesus Christ for Him to deal with as He wills. I ask forgiveness for and renounce all negative inner vows that I have made with the enemy, and ask that Jesus Christ release me from these vows and from any bondage they may have held in me. I claim the shed blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, over every aspect of my life for my protection. Amen. 5. Have Masses said for your intention or for a person while they are alive.  6. Pray and fast for the person in question.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“The attacks of the demon will come in four distinctive ways and may prevent us from concentration on our prayer life. These are: distraction, dryness, lack of faith and — the favorite of the evil one — discouragement”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“When the body fasts, it starts to realize the truth about fasting. Its desire for food and pleasure is broken and then it recognizes fasting as a virtue, and it’s pleasing to the body and to the mind. Like anything else, fasting becomes easier the more we practice it. The body then will adjust itself.  A human body can live”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Fasting as a spiritual habit and discipline provides authority over the temptation and shows that you’re in charge and not the demon and his temptation.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Precision, accuracy, and authority mean everything in spiritual warfare”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Proper fasting results in freedom, detachment from vices, a spiritual conversion, and a dynamic spiritual strength, that give us a clear and better understanding of God’s will for our lives.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Saint Louis De Montfort’s book, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin,”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“There are over 42 references to fasting in the Old Testament alone.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Fasting can break the hold of sin and can eliminate the vices and addictions that are keeping us from becoming a faith-filled child of God.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Fasting can break the hold of sin and can eliminate the vices and addictions that are keeping us from becoming a faith-filled child of God. I pointed this out in Chapter Four of my book, From the Hub to the Heart.  Sin had a deep hold on me and something had to give. I had never really said that I wanted to stop drinking, swearing and lying. But when I fasted, it caused a renewal of my soul. Prayer and fasting helped me to overcome all the impure thoughts, the vulgar mouth with which I swore 1500 times a day, the disrespect and pre-judging of all mankind, the excessive drinking, the prideful talk and the lying to everyone about who I was. Gradually”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“This message is loud and clear when we read Pope Emeritus Benedict’s Lenten message of 2009 when he says, “this practice (fasting) needs to be rediscovered and encouraged again in our day.” He also says that “it seems abundantly clear that fasting represents an important ascetical practice, a spiritual arm to do battle against every possible disordered attachment to ourselves.”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“This reminds me of a great homily given by Father Peter Grover at Saint Clement’s in Boston. He described his own death and judgment. While at the Gates of Heaven, he told the gatekeeper that he was a priest. That was not enough to get into heaven, and that surprised him. Fr. Grover said, “I want you to know that when God the Father asked me to be a priest, I trusted in all He had in store for me.” The gatekeeper of heaven”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution

“Everyone, except the sick, has to fast" (July 21, 1982).”
― Andrew Lavallee, When You Fast: Jesus Has Provided The Solution