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   "For there exist, there really exist, ways which are even more important   
   than abstinence from food which can open the gates which lead to God with   
   boldness. He, therefore, who eats and cannot fast, let him display richer   
   almsgiving, let him pray more, let him have a more intense desire to hear   
   divine words. In this, our somatic illness is not a hindrance. Let him   
   become reconciled with his enemies, let him distance from his soul every   
   resentment. If he wants to accomplish these things, then he has done the   
   true fast, which is what the Lord asks of us more than anything else. It is   
   for this reason that he asks us to abstain from food, in order to place the   
   flesh in subjection to the fulfillment of his commandments, whereby curbing   
   its impetuousness."   
      
   St. John Chrysostom, On Fasting.   
      
   "So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who   
   gives the increase."  1 Corinthians 3:7   
      
   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)