“This is the essence of Christian fasting: We ache and yearn – and fast – to know more and more of all that God has for us in Jesus. But only because he has already laid hold of us and is drawing us ever forward and upward into “all the fullness of God.”

John Piper
(1946-Present; Minnesota)

 

“[T]he reason why you have not got contentment in the things of this world is not because you have not gotten enough of them – that is not the reason – but the reason is, because they are not things proportional to that immortal soul of yours which is capable of God himself.”

Jeremiah Burroughs
(1600-1646; England)

 

“Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it.”

John Wesley
(1703-1791; England)