“When you make renouncement of the goods you possess, be adamant in your resolve, convinced that you are merely dispatching these goods to heaven in advance; for, although you are hiding them in the bosom of the lowly, you will find them again with God, greatly increased.”
Basil the Great (330-379), Bishop of Caesarea, On Renunciation of the World (Fathers of the Church, Vol. 9) 18.