Eat, Fast, Feast Quotes

“The Lord has created us not just to stay awake, but to switch between wakefulness and sleep. Not just to grow, but to grow and repair. Not just to exercise, but to exercise and recover. Not just to work, but to work and rest. Not just to fast, but to fast and feed. And, every once in a while, to feast.”
― Jay W. Richards, Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Intermittent Fasting

“In a sermon on prayer and fasting, for instance, Augustine—who was not an extreme ascetic—said, “Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.”
― Jay W. Richards, Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Intermittent Fasting

“On the contrary, science is validating the ancient Christian practice of regular, and sometimes intense, fasting. Fasting, it turns out, is actually good for us.”
― Jay W. Richards, Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Intermittent Fasting

“I'm convinced that one reason the Church is so weak is that she has abandoned this ancient spiritual practice. It's hard not to notice that a decline in fasting has tracked closely with a decline in holiness and faithfulness to perennial Christian teaching.”
― Jay W. Richards, Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Intermittent Fasting

“In Scripture and in Church history, Christians fasted for penance. But they also fasted to put their passions and appetites under control, to identify with Christ, to enrich their prayer life, to become holier, and to prepare for spiritual battle.”
― Jay W. Richards, Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Intermittent Fasting

“There's a void where books linking bod and soul should exist. This is my effort to help fill the void.”
― Jay W. Richards, Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul—A Christian Guide to Intermittent Fasting