"In flowers you have a separate beauty belonging
to each; no one flower is just like another, but each
one blushes with its own loveliness. But in our Lord
these separate and distinct beauties are found
united in one. Christ is the posy in which all the
beauties of the garden of perfection are bound up.
Each gem has its own radiance: the diamond is
not like the ruby, nor the ruby like the emerald.
But Christ is that ring in which you have sapphire,
ruby, diamond, emerald, set in choice order, so that
each one heightens the other's brilliance.
Do not look for anything lovely outside of Jesus,
for he has all loveliness. All perfections are in him
making up ONE CONSUMMATE PERFECTION; and
all the loveliness which is to be seen elsewhere is but
a reflection of his own unrivaled charms." -Spurgeon
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