Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.

What we perceive, when things fall apart, is no longer the stage and settings of habitable order. It's the eternal watery tohu va bohu, formless emptiness, and the tehom, the abyss, to speak biblically—the chaos forever lurking beneath our thin surfaces of security.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.

Now, thanks to the ONI, I could. And I did.