Maria Jane McIntosh quotes

“...it is only death which is hopeless.”
-- Maria Jane McIntosh

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“There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.”
-- Maria Jane McIntosh

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“Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.”
-- Maria Jane McIntosh

Source : Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199

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“Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.”
-- Maria Jane McIntosh

Source : Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196

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“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”

“New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.”

“... ah, one favor: if he telephones again, tell him it's no use, that I've gone out ...”

“By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.”

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

“Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.”

Source : "The Latest Decalogue" l. 11 (1862)

“I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.”

“Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”

“Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.”

“Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.”

Source : Chip Ingram, Chris Tiegreen (2013). “Spiritual Simplicity: Doing Less, Loving More”, p.98, Simon and Schuster