“A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will”

— William Ernest Hocking

Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XIV : The Need of an Absolute, p. 197.
Context: A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

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