A Quote by Philip Sidney

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Philip Sidney

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Philip Sidney
English - Soldier
November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Aldous Huxley

There is a prophetic release that occurs in a church or an individual who fasts continually for forty days.

Jentezen Franklin

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Charles Simmons

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Tori Amos

Well, you can go on looking forward," said Gandalf. "There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

Jentezen Franklin

How much does the universe weigh, when it fasts for infinity?

Akiane Kramarik

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

Mahatma Gandhi

No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.

Michelangelo

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

Mahatma Gandhi

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor...I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end.

Shane Claiborne

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

Trudie Styler

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

Angus Deaton

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