One grain of holiness?'

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Have I one grain of holiness in myself? Not one. 

Can all the men in the world, by all their united 
exertions, raise up a grain of spiritual holiness 
in their hearts? Not an atom, with all their efforts. 

If all the preachers in the world were to unite 
together for the purpose of working a grain of
holiness in one man's soul, they might strive 
to all eternity—they could no more by their 
preaching create holiness, than by their 
preaching they could create a lump of gold. 

But Jesus imparts a measure of His own holiness 
to His people. He sends the Holy Spirit, to raise up 
holy desires. He communicates a heavenly, spiritual, 
and divine nature—which bathes in eternal things 
as its element—and enjoys spiritual things as sweet 
and precious. It may indeed be small in measure; 
and he that has it is often troubled because he has 
so little of it—yet he has enough to know what it is. 

Has not your soul, though you feel to be a defiled 
wretch, though every iniquity is at times working 
in your heart, though every worm of obscenity and 
corruption is too often trailing its filthy slime upon 
your carnal mind—has it not felt, does it not 
sometimes feel—a measure of holiness God-wards? 

Do you ever feel a breathing forth of your soul 
into the bosom of a holy God . . .
heavenly desires, 
pure affections,
singleness of eye,
simplicity of purpose,
a heart that longs to have the mind, image, 
and likeness of Jesus stamped upon it?

This is a holiness such as the Lord of life and 
glory imparts out of his fullness to His poor and 
needy family.

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