What mistaken ideas some men have of the will of God! The moment the will of God is mentioned, the natural mind shrinks back as the sensitive plant does when approached by the finger. "The will of God"—as if there was something tyrannical in it, something arbitrary, something calculated to abridge human happiness, human freedom; whereas the will of God simply means the harmony of the universe; the will of God is always right, always just; and not only so, the will of God is always love. Whoever is brought into conformity with the will of God is brought into that which preserves the harmony and secures the happiness of all, for all are truly happy just as they become absorbed in the passionate desire to do the will of God.
Moses D. Hoge — Rev. Moses D. Hoge, D.D., LL.D., of Richmond, Virginia, The Perfection of Beauty and Other Sermons (Richmond, Virginia: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1904), XII, "My Mother and My Brethren," p. 159
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