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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/much-of-our-understanding-of-god-s-action-in-outlying-is-achieved-in/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

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> [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 passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/much-of-our-understanding-of-god-s-action-in-our-lives-in-achieved-in/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

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## More by Sheila Cassidy

> [This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/this-conversion-into-prayer-of-our-everyday-joys-sorrows-hopes-and/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/when-one-is-in-very-great-pain-and-fear-it-is-extremely-difficult-to/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/we-only-deliberately-waste-time-with-those-we-love-it-is-the-purest/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/the-world-is-not-divided-into-the-strong-who-care-and-the-weak-who/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [“As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/as-i-write-this-it-sounds-rather-negative-and-hard-but-i-do-not-mean/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/prayer-even-more-than-eating-or-sleeping-is-not-a-luxury-but-a/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/much-of-our-understanding-of-god-s-action-in-outlying-is-achieved-in/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/slowly-i-learn-the-importance-of-powerlessness-i-experience-it-in-my/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/what-we-feel-at-prayer-is-god-s-business-not-ours-and-we-must-strive/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/more-than-anything-i-have-learned-that-we-are-all-frail-people/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/the-tension-between-the-call-to-the-desert-and-to-the-market-place/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/much-of-our-understanding-of-god-s-action-in-our-lives-in-achieved-in/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

> [It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheila-cassidy/it-is-precisely-because-we-cannot-see-god-that-we-can-only-know-that/)

[Sheila Cassidy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheila-cassidy/)

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