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   "Fasting is a medicine. But medicine, as beneficial as it is, becomes   
   useless because of the inexperience of the user. He has to know the   
   appropriate time that the medicine should be taken and the right amount of   
   medicine and the condition of the body which is to take it, the weather   
   conditions and the season of the year and the appropriate diet of the sick   
   and many other things. If any of these things are overlooked, the medicine   
   will do more harm than good. So, if one who is going to heal the body needs   
   so much accuracy, when we care for the soul and are concerned about healing   
   it from bad thoughts, it is necessary to examine and observe everything   
   with every possible detail."   
      
   St. John Chrysostom, On Fasting.   
      
   "For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; For behold,   
   henceforth all generations will call me blessed For He who is mighty has   
   done great things for me, And holy is His name."  Luke 1:48-49   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)