Andrew murray quotes on fasting. Protestant theologians & ministers (4) posted on august 4, 2011 by brother m martin luther but then care must be taken, lest out of this freedom [from fasting and abstinence] there grows a lazy indifference about killing the wantonness of the flesh; Fasting, the letting go of all that is of the seen and temporal … fasting helps to express, to deepen, and to confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, to sacrifice ourselves, to attain what we seek for the kingdom of god.