Gospel Principles
Unit 7: Perfecting Our Lives
Chapter 25: Fasting
Concept 5: Fasting Teaches Self-Control

"Fasting helps us gain strength of character.  This reason alone makes fasting important.  (see David O. McKay, True to the Faith, p 81.).  When we fast properly, we will learn to control our appetites, our passions, and our tempers.  Solomon said,  "He that is slow to angeris better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." (Proverbs 16:32).  Even fasting only two meals can give us a feeling of success.  We are a little stronger by having proved to ourselves that we have self-control.  If we teach our children to fast, they will develop the willpower to overcome greater temptations later in their lives."


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Moroni 10:4-5
  "4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
  5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."

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