“Our aiming at God’s glory, as our highest mark in all our actions, implies our preferring his honour to all our interests, whether on earth or in heaven, whether of body or soul. As love to God follows naturally after the experimental knowledge of God, (in the manner before mentioned) so our preferring God’s honor to all our interests, follows naturally and necessarily after, and flows from that love to God, which is supreme and transcendent in degree. If we love God above ourselves, with all our souls and strength as Jehovah requires, we shall be easily induced to prefer his glory, to all our interests of every kind.” — Gilbert Tennent, Twenty-Three Sermons Upon the Chief End of Man (1744), pp. 7-8