Persons well use to fating as a systematic practice will have a clear and constant sense of their resources in God… Since food has the pervasive place it does in our lives, the effects of fasting will be diffused throughout our personality. In the midst of all our needs and wants, we experience the great contentment of the child that has been weaned from its mother breast (Ps 131:2) And godliness with contentment is great gain (1 Tim 6:6)
Dallas Willard
From the book “The Spirit Of The Disciplines”