Chapter 1. The Size of the Soul Persons out of Christ often try to comfort themselves with the remembrance that they have never in their lives committed any really great sin. Little trifling acts of wrongdoing perhaps, but nothing of any consequence, so surely God will overlook their rather insignificant transgressions when He settles their accounts. In the first place, a man’s status before God is decided not by the number and enormity of his sins but by whether those sins have or have not been