Recognize to whom you owe the fact that you exist, that you breathe, that you understand, that you are wise, and, above all, that you know God and hope for the kingdom of heaven and the vision of glory, now darkly and as in a mirror but then with greater fullness and purity. You have been made a child of God [by faith], co-heir with Christ. Where did you get all this, and from whom? Is it not God who asks you now in your turn to show yourself generous above all other creatures and for the sake of all other creatures? Friends, let us never allow ourselves to misuse what has been give us by God’s gift. Let us not labor to help up and hoard riches while others remain in need.

—Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 14