“The Savior by no means has excluded the rich on account of wealth itself, and the possession of property, nor fenced off salvation against them, if they able and willing to submit their life to God’s commandments, and prefer them to transitory things.
Let him look to the Lord with a steady eye, as those who look toward the slightest nod of a good helmsman, what he wishes, what he orders, what he indicates, what signal he gives his mariners, where and when he directs the ship’s course.”
Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215) in Salvation of the Rich Man 26.