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 not God… All they ask is that we do not desert them.
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 varyi… - 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 the other but from our varyi…
- 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 passed we cry out … - 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 passed we cry out …
Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life ac… - 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 and arrange our life ac…
This conversion into prayer of our everyday joys, sorrows, hopes and desires is at first a conscious labor, but after a while it becomes second natur… - 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 second natur…
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—… - 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 is not to be afraid of it—…
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… - 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 our lives, by the way we treat our…
More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it t… - 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 clever at concealing it t…
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 of boredom when we… - 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 of boredom when we…
We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence wh… - 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 time idly in their presence wh…
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