Do you have a hunger for God? If we don't feel strong desires for themanifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunkdeeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at thetable of the world. Our soul is stuffed with small things, and there isno room for the great. If we are full of what the world offers, thenperhaps a fast might express, or even increase, our soul's appetite forGod. Between the dangers of self-denial and self-indulgence is the pathof pleasant pain called fasting.---John Piper
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