“Love is a plant of heavenly origin. The unconsecrated heart cannot originate or produce it. It is found only in the heart where Jesus reigns.”
– Evangline Booth
“It is called the fruit of the Spirit as it is of Him, by Him and through Him. The works and energies of the flesh will never produce the wonder of the Life of Christ”
Brian Troxel
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love…”
Galatians 5:22
“Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to His holy laws”
– Adam Clarke
“…faith which worketh by love”
Galatians 5:6
“Of all gossiping, religious gossiping is the worst: it adds hypocrisy to uncharitableness, and effectually does the work of the devil in the name of the Lord”
John Wesley
“And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness”
Genesis 9:23
Wisdom of the Ages 