The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is not circumscribed in any place, nor is He less than the heaven;
but the heavens are the works of His fingers, and the whole earth is held in His grasp:
He is in all things and around all.
Think not that the sun is brighter than He, or equal to Him:
for He who at first formed the sun must be incomparably greater and brighter.
He foreknows the things that shall be, and is mightier than all,
knowing all things and doing as He will;
not being subject to any necessary sequence of events, nor to nativity, nor chance, nor fate;
in all things perfect, and equally possessing every absolute form of virtue,
neither diminishing nor increasing, but in mode and conditions ever the same;
who has prepared punishment for sinners, and a crown for the righteous.
Seeing then that many have gone astray in divers ways from the One God,
some having deified the sun, that when the sun sets they may abide in the night season without God;
others the moon, to have no God by day; others the other parts of the world;
others the arts; others their various kinds of food; others their pleasures;
while some… have set up on high an image of a naked woman and called it Aphrodite,
and worshipped their own lust in a visible form;
others, dazzled by the brightness of gold, have deified it and the other kinds of matter—
whereas if one lay as a first foundation in his heart the doctrine of the unity of God, and trust to Him,
he roots out at once the whole crop of the evils of idolatry, and of the error of the heretics:
therefore, lay this first doctrine of religion as a foundation in your soul by faith.
— St. Cyril of Jerusalem