Abnegation Quote by Alexander MacLaren

“Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .” quote by Alexander MacLaren — Download Open image

“Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .”

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“no wonder you left." Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.”

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