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   "If we regulated our life with a sober mind and directed all of our   
   interest toward spiritual things, and if we ate as much as we needed to   
   satisfy our necessary needs and offered our entire lives to good works, we   
   would not have any need of the help rendered by the fast. But because human   
   nature is indifferent and gives itself over mostly to comforts and   
   gratifications, for this reason the philanthropic Lord, like a loving and   
   caring father, devised the therapy of the fast for us, so that our   
   gratifications would be completely stopped and that our worldly cares be   
   transferred to spiritual works. So, if there are some who have gathered   
   here and who are hindered by somatic ailments and cannot remain without   
   food, I advise them to nullify the somatic ailment and not to deprive   
   themselves from this spiritual teaching, but to care for it even more."   
      
   St. John Chrysostom, On Fasting.   
      
   "For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in   
   your spirit, which are God's."  1 Corinthians 6:20   
      
   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)