As every lovely hue is light, so every lovely grace is love. This is the rainbow which gathers up and harmonises all other qualities, and bends its divine beauty over the whole life of the Christian. It is the genus of which all the Christian virtues are the species. Patience is the attitude of love, zeal is the energy of love, humility is the aspect of love, benevolence is the acting of love. Faith worketh by love, the fruit of the Spirit is love, the end of the commandment is love, God is love, heaven is love.
Hugh Macmillan — Bible Teachings in Nature, 4th ed. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1870), ch. XIII, "Stones with Fair Colours" (Isa. 54:11), pp. 258-259
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