Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

We have shown above that since gluttony and drunkenness hinder, disturb, and choke the spiritual actions of the soul, and on the contrary excite and inflame the lusts of the flesh, Scripture, according to the nature of persons and ages, proposes not only fasting, but also temperance and sobriety. Thus also the ancients, granted that they make many words commending fasting, nevertheless ascribe the same fruits and effects for mortifying the flesh and arousing earnest exercises of repentance and prayer also to temperance and sobriety, even as to fasting. - Martin Chemnitz, Examen IV:308