" Salvation does not depend upon outward things, whether they are many or few, small or great, splendid or lowly, glorious or mean, but upon the soul's virtue, upon faith, hope, love, brotherliness, knowledge, gentleness, humility and truth, of which salvation is the prize. "

― Clement of Alexandria , The Exhortation to the Greeks/The Rich Man's Salvation/To the Newly Baptized (fragment)