Let us offer our souls in sacrifice by means of fasting. Whoever fails to give this to God will not be excused, for if you are to give him yourself you are never without the means of giving. To make these acceptable, mercy must be added. Fasting bears no fruit unless it is watered by mercy. Fasting dries up when mercy dries up.
Mercy is to fasting as rain is to the earth.
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