Hayley Dimarco Quotes

#1. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

Don DeLillo

#2. Foolish wise folk sneer at you; foolish wise folk would pull up the useless lilies, the needless roses, from the garden, would plant in their places only serviceable wholesome cabbage. But the Gardener knowing better, plants the silly short-lived flowers; foolish wise folk, asking for what purpose.

Jerome K. Jerome

#3. Love isn't about how a person makes me feel but how I treat them.

Hayley DiMarco

#4. As our faith grows and we come to know more about the attributes of God and his role in our lives and our obedience, we learn to see our weakness in light of these words, "For is it God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure" (Phil. 2:13).

Hayley DiMarco

#5. Nothing that happens in the life of the God Girl is failure; everything is an opportunity.

Hayley DiMarco

#6. Just because Oprah said it, that doesn't make it true.

Hayley DiMarco

#7. We have to understand that to rejoice is to do something, not to feel something (p. 44).

Hayley DiMarco

#8. Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.

Tarek Saab

#9. I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

Mindy Kaling

#10. True happiness is not based on circumstances or success but on the very nature of God. He promises to be our joy. That no matter what happens "it is well with my soul".

Hayley DiMarco

#11. Sensitive OPA data was scrubbed and overwritten with innocuous-looking logs with false time stamps. Anything too sensitive to trust to a computer, the captain destroyed.

Anonymous

#12. I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn't eat its own fruit but presents it to others.

Hayley DiMarco

#13. As believers, everything we do is based on how we view God.

Hayley DiMarco

#14. When someone disowns an idea or even a person, they give up faith in or love for something or someone they used to call their own.

Hayley DiMarco

#15. When you get your power to be "good" from your desire to please man, you will ultimately fail because you do not have the power to be perfect,

Hayley DiMarco

#16. if you don't ever find yourself recalibrating your decisions, you're likely ignoring some issues that might become problems down the line.

Carl Richards

#17. When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

Hayley DiMarco

#18. In marriage, God rarely starts with the issues on the table. He starts with the ones in our hearts

Ngina Otiende

#19. A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.

George Saunders

#20. Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.

Caroline Knapp

#21. Start with the important task first: Start the most important task first, as this will make you relaxed and avoid anxiety to jump into multitasking.

Dorothy Enderson

#22. When Christ becomes all you need, you will find happy all around you, because he never disappoints.

Hayley DiMarco

#23. When we first believe we think we can do it all; our passion is so strong. But after a time we start to learn that passion doesn't equal strength, and our sinful nature rears its ugly head.

Hayley DiMarco

#24. The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.

Hayley DiMarco

#25. O sit and wait for joy to arrive without turning your mind to the things of Christ is like expecting the Holy Spirit to take 15 pounds off your body while sitting on the couch eating ice cream (p. 57).

Hayley DiMarco