Eat, Fast, Feast Quotes

“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