SO GOOD QUOTES

For from these things we go on to others, and we are lifted up from this step unto others which are higher, and by reason of resisting meats we arrive at the similitude of angels; for inasmuch as the angels exist wholly and entirely without meat, we must of our own free will make ourselves alien unto the meat which is lusted after, and diminish a few of the wants of the body. And by this also we shew that we have in us the longing to be like unto spiritual beings. 

—Philoxenus, Ascetic Discourses (1894) pp.403-471. Discourse 11 — On Abstinence