Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work. The secret is not to be afraid of it—not to run away. The dying know that we are… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor. — 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
