Thursday, November 26, 2009

Obedience

From Moby Dick, by Melville:

Before Ishmael leaves for his voyage, he hears a sermon on Jonah. In words full of foreboding,
Father Maple warns, "And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists."

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