Mahatma Gandhi Fasting Quotations

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.

It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.