But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do — remember that — and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. An… - Herman Melville

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But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do — remember that — and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.