" The cancer patient doesn't treasure his tumor, simply because it's a part of himself; so why should I treasure the organs that are killing my immortal soul? Christ isn't ordering you to pluck out your eyes: he's saying that he knows, that if you knew what he knew you would know that it would be better for you, in the long run. That you would want to if you knew. "

― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low , Monsters in a Mirror: Strange Tales from the Chapel Perilous