If we have become servants of him who redeemed us, we look to him who rules over us; no longer do we live for ourselves but for him who acquired us when he exchanged his life (1Cor 6.20). No longer are we masters of ourselves but he who purchased us is the Lord of his own possessions and we are his own property.Therefore, the law of our life is his governing will.
–Saint Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395)