Quotes from Hayley DiMarco

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.

God's love is here to stay and thats what gives the God girl the strength to rise above the mess and smile

I conquered my sadness by letting it be a tool in the hand of God to draw me closer to Him and farther from my self-pity.

Tell him everything and then be quiet and listen

Simplicity helps you keep the main thing the main thing and things unimportant.

The New American Commentary on 1 John puts the idea of your sin into perspective with the statement that "you are not sinful because you sin, you sin because you are sinful."2

When your heart is tainted by the love of this world and the pursuit of all its goodies, whether you are sexually immoral or not, you are living an impure life.

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.

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

a frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process of adjusting our public image. we fear so deeply what we think, other people see in us that we talk in order to straighten out their understanding..... one of the fruits of silence (or keeping your mouth shut) is the freedom to let God be our justifier. we don't need to straighten out others. when we can allow God to justify and set things right, that brings us to believe that God can care for us-reputation and all

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

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).

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".

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

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

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

And in those changes to the Scriptures of your faith you only prove that you didn't know what you were doing in the first place. Picking and choosing your faith promises the ultimate freedom to be who you want and do what you want, but eventually it will only prove to you that to live for yourself and to make your law based on your own happiness is to become the slave of your imperfect self and to be tortured and tormented by your own pride and failure.

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.

the fruit of the Spirit doesn't show itself so much when life is a dream, when there is no chaffing, no trials, no suffering, and no compromise. What shows itself in those moments of perfection is the fruit of the flesh

Joy serves a purpose in the life of pain that many have never accurately understood.

If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved" (Rom. 10:9–10 esv).

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

When life is more than she can bear, God is more than she needs.

The beauty of the God girl is that she isn't about "me" all the time.