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Matthew 6:16-18
Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.
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On Lent, iv.
... to the dogmatizing of those whose very fasting is turned ... things of which they contend
the devil, not God, is ... For the good Creator made all things good and the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/leo/writings of leo the great/sermon xlii on lent iv.htm

To those who had not Attended the Assembly.
... thou hast got thy enemy in a prison, made fast by ... remembering that to wipe away sins
does not entail much ... of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chrysostom/on the priesthood/to those who had not.htm

The Return of the Exiles
... seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth ... complaining, and the
unfavorable comparisons made, had a ... They did not bring Him the sacrifice of a ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 45 the return of.htm

Of the Discipline of the Church, and Its Principal Use in Censures ...
... exquisite delicacies they seek the praise of fasting: no dainties ... caused sweet and
costly potions to be made for them ... among all the rich: they do not fast for ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 12 of the discipline.htm

Events of Early Christian Life
... feelings at the time of this incident made me think ... One fall, not long after I was
saved, the grasshoppers ... of the State proclaimed a day of fasting and prayer ...
/.../cole/trials and triumphs of faith/chapter vi events of early.htm

"Thou Shalt Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother. "
... taught in this Commandment, since in it all our life is made subject to other ... this
it is easy to understand that the commands of fasting do not include the ...
/.../luther/a treatise on good works/thou shalt honor thy father.htm

Commendation of those who had Laid Aside the Practice of Swearing. ...
... elsewhere, and such a one, though he may be fasting, is an ... it cannot pass it." [1428]
But the marvellous thing is not this only, that He hath made a great ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily ix commendation of those.htm

Matt. xiii. 24-30.
... Since even Christ for this end wrought those miracles, that having made Himself
thereby credible, and drawn ... By practice I mean, not thy fasting, nor yet ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xlvi matt xiii 24-30.htm

Recapitulation and Application of the Foregoing Arguments.
... of all, and whatever remarks may yet be made in the ... locality entreating [the boon]
with much fasting and prayer ... who are cured very frequently do not possess the ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxxi recapitulation and application of.htm

Rom. Iii. 18-Sep
... man do miracles, have celibacy to show, and fasting, and lying ... or his parents, or
anything else, but made him so ... him" (Genesis 4:7, LXX.); he did not even then ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily vii rom iii 18-sep.htm