Sheila Cassidy

This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while…

— Sheila Cassidy

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my…

— Sheila Cassidy

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose…

— Sheila Cassidy

The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn…

— Sheila Cassidy

“As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in…

— Sheila Cassidy

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we…

— 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…

— Sheila Cassidy

Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work.…

— 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…

— Sheila Cassidy

More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us…

— Sheila Cassidy

The tension between the call to the desert and to the market place arises not from the greater presence of God in…

— 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…

— Sheila Cassidy

It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it…

— Sheila Cassidy