“One [Elijah] whose "heart" was habitually found "lifted up" rather than fattened up, who in forty days and as many nights maintained a fast above the power of human nature while spiritual faith supplied strength (to his body), both saw with his eyes God's glory, and heard with his ears God's voice and understood with…”
Tertullian, 3th c. — ON FASTING 6
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41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
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39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
— Lamentations 3:41 —
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.