“Someone has beautifully analyzed the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22, and shown that all the graces mentioned there are but various forms of love itself. The writer is not speaking of different fruits but of one fruit, the fruit of the spirit, and the various words that follow our big phases and description of the one fruit, which is love itself. Joy, which is the first mentioned, is love on wings; peace, which follows, is love folding it’s wings and nestling under the wings of God; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love confiding; meekness is love stooping; temperance is true self-love, and the proper regard for our own real interest, which is as much the duty of love as is regard for the interest of others. Thus, we see that love is essential to our whole Christian character – indeed it is the complement and crown of all else.” —–An excerpt from “The Gentle Love of the Holy Spirit” by A.B. Simpson