If then God is not ignorant of anything that happens in creation, and if God loves us more truly than the best human father, and if God loves us so as to have numbered our very hairs, then we need not be afraid. Don’t you see that God views your fear with more concern than the lives of many sparrows? He already knows the secrets of your heart.

—John Chrysostom, The Gospel of Matthew, Homily 34.2-3