I judge, then, that nothing makes sin seem so sinful and so hateful as the contemplation of the love of God. For before I can tell how far I am from God, there must be something which can measure the distance. And that which measures must be something which passes from one to the other. And what is there which does or can span my sins and my God, my nature and His, except Christ? Therefore, Christ is the only measurement of my separation from God, and it is only as I know Him, the greatness of His work, the infinity of His being, the eternity of His atonement, that I can at all judge or conceive of the extent of sin, or the depth of that vast gulf that that sin has opened and divided me from peace, from heaven, and from God.

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