“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.”

“Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”

“It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospital, and more prayers to Heaven than any. God bless the Methodist Church — bless all the churches — and blessed be to God, who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.”

“The processes of power are pervasive, complex, and often disguised in our society.”

“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

“All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.”

“Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.”

“Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.”