The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in one or the other but from our varying psychological needs to apprehend him in different ways. — 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 far deeper than that built upon fantasy, and suffering teaches one that happiness can catch a person unawares in the midst of deprivation and desolation. There is a certain stripping away of the externals which makes… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share
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
