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The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce QUOTES

The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce

2 " Remember that while He walked this earth, Christ didn’t micromanage the lives of people around Him. He wasn’t controlling in His demands of their obedience. He didn’t run after the rich young ruler who wouldn’t sell all he had to follow Him. Jesus didn’t chase him down and demand compliance. If then, being so perfect and wise, He can allow people to fail, why do we believe it our job to micromanage the life of [others] Can we trust God to speak to [them], teach [them], and lead [them]?” (p. 168). "

― Hayley DiMarco , The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce

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

― Hayley DiMarco , The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce

4 " 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 , The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce

5 " Happiness celebrates how we feel, but we can rejoice over what we know is true regardless of feeling. Joy is the realization that we no longer have to live under our own power. The expression of thanks and the vocalization of delight and hope for a greater purpose that we know nothing of is fullness of joy. In that dark prison ward, the ten Boom sisters felt a pleasure not in the fleas but in the God who allowed them. They rejoiced not in the hunger and sickness but in the God who never forgets or rejects those who love Him and seek His face” (p. 44). "

― Hayley DiMarco , The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce

6 " 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 "

― Hayley DiMarco , The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce

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

― Hayley DiMarco , The Fruitful Wife: Cultivating a Love Only God Can Produce