St. Gregory of Nyssa: "Consider your royal dignity!"

“O MAN, scorn not that which is admirable in you! You are a

poor thing in your own eyes, but I would teach you that in reality you are a great thing! . . . Realize what you are! Consider your royal dignity! The heavens have not been made in God’s image as you have, nor the moon, nor the sun, nor anything to be seen in creation. . . . Behold, of all that exists there is nothing that can contain your greatness.”

~St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395): In cantica, homily 2.