Holiness Is Being Clean Inside

Poem★★★★

Teach me to love Thee as Thy angels love, One holy passion filling all my frame — The baptism of the heaven-descended Dove; My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame. — GEORGE CROLY A clergyman once asked the poor children before him, ‘What is holiness?” Thereupon a poor little boy in tattered rags, jumped up and said, “Please, your reverence, it is to be clean inside.” Could anything be truer ?

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The point

A clergyman asks children to define holiness; a ragged poor boy simply answers 'to be clean inside,' capturing spiritual truth with childlike wisdom.

Scripture

Psalm 24:3-4Matthew 18:3

Audience

Adults

Tone

Inspiring · Convicting · Humble

To tell aloud

under a minute · 75 words

Subjects

Holiness Wisdom Purity Innocence

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