Disguise Quotes - Page 4

• Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

  Janette Oke

  Gratitude, Blessing, Sometimes

  Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers

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• Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

  Karl Rahner

  Eerie, Names, Silence

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• Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

  Martin Buber

  Christian, Religious, Mean

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• When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Opportunity, Purpose, Problem

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• The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Dying, Cripples

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• If only you could see the whole picture, if you knew the whole story, you would realize that no problem ever comes to you that does not have a purpose in your life, that cannot contribute to your inner growth. When you perceive this, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise. If you did not face problems, you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Opportunity, Light, Growth

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• Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.

  Mother Teresa

  Sweet, Jesus, Nursing

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Poor, Distressing

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• [Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

  Saint Basil

  Disappointment, Rain, Fall

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• Anger is fear in disguise.

  Rajneesh

  Anger

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• Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Safety, Hours

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.

  P. C. Cast

  Spring, Eye, Soul

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• Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

  Jay Samit

  Opportunity, Management, Threat

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.132, Macmillan

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• There could never be a more beautiful you; dont buy the lies, disguises and hoops they make you jump through; you were made to fill a purpose that only you could do; so there could never be a more beautiful you.

  Jonny Diaz

  Beautiful, Lying, Purpose

  Song: More Beautiful You, Album: More Beautiful You, 2009

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• In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

  Judy Holliday

  Dog, Expression, Looks

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• And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Blessing, House

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Thinking, Self

  "Thomas Merton: I Have Seen what I was Looking for: Selected Spiritual Writings".

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• I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from a living, vibrant creature fighting for life to a violent death. I recognized it, as did my brothers and sisters.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Brother, Memories, Fighting

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• Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

  Robert Greene

  People, Political, Doubt

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• Those true eyes, Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise, The sweet soul shining through them.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Sweet, Eye, Love At First Sight

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

  Bernard Williams

  Spring, Winter, Fever

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• I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Football, Growing Up, Hockey

  "Taylor Made for Texas". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. March 7, 2012.

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• There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

  Arthur Helps

  Honesty, Hypocrite, Expression

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• No one ever grows up. They may look grown-up, but it's a disguise. It's just the clay of time. Men and women are still children deep in their hearts. They still would like to jump and play, but that heavy clay won't let them.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Children, Growing Up, Heart

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.285, Open Road Media

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• The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Majestic Beauty, Shapes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.35

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