If the appetite alone hath sinned let it alone fast and it sufficeth. But if the other members also have sinned why should they not fast too…. Let the eye fast from strange sights and from every wantonness so that that which roamed in freedom in fault-doing may abundantly humbled be checked by penitence. Let the ear blameably eager to listen fast from tales and rumors and from whatsoever is of idle import and tendeth least to salvation. Let the tongue fast from slanders and murmurings and from useless vain and scurrilous words and sometimes also in the seriousness of silence even from things which may seem of essential import. Let the hand abstain from … all toils which are not imperatively necessary. But also let the soul herself abstain from all evils and from acting out her own will. For without such abstinence the other things find no favor with the Lord.
ABSTAINER n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Refrain tonight and that shall lend a hand of easiness to the next abstinence; the next more easy; for use can almost change the stamp of nature and either curb the devil or throw him out with wondrous potency.
Keep fast and eat also stay awake at night and sleep also for verily there is a duty on you to your body not to labor overmuch so that ye may not get ill and destroy yourselves; and verily there is a duty on you to your eyes ye must sometimes sleep and give them rest; and verily there is a duty on you to your wife and to your visitors and guests that come to see you; ye must talk to them; and nobody hath kept fast who fasted always; the fast of three days in every month is equal to constant fasting: then keep three days fast in every month.
All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.
Against diseases the strongest fence is the defensive virtue abstinence.
Use do not abuse; nether abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
To many total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
If the appetite alone hath sinned let it alone fast and it sufficeth. But if the other members also have sinned why should they not fast too…. Let the eye fast from strange sights and from every wantonness so that that which roamed in freedom in fault-doing may abundantly humbled be checked by penitence. Let the ear blameably eager to listen fast from tales and rumors and from whatsoever is of idle import and tendeth least to salvation. Let the tongue fast from slanders and murmurings and from useless vain and scurrilous words and sometimes also in the seriousness of silence even from things which may seem of essential import. Let the hand abstain from … all toils which are not imperatively necessary. But also let the soul herself abstain from all evils and from acting out her own will. For without such abstinence the other things find no favor with the Lord.
ABSTAINER n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from anything which he may lawfully claim.
To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence which if not a virtue is the groundwork of a virtue.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity and patient courage in adversity.
Refrain tonight and that shall lend a hand of easiness to the next abstinence; the next more easy; for use can almost change the stamp of nature and either curb the devil or throw him out with wondrous potency.
Keep fast and eat also stay awake at night and sleep also for verily there is a duty on you to your body not to labor overmuch so that ye may not get ill and destroy yourselves; and verily there is a duty on you to your eyes ye must sometimes sleep and give them rest; and verily there is a duty on you to your wife and to your visitors and guests that come to see you; ye must talk to them; and nobody hath kept fast who fasted always; the fast of three days in every month is equal to constant fasting: then keep three days fast in every month.