“Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, "The Lord is in this place and I never… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
“As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
“Much of our understanding of God's action in outlying is achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
