To people of the present time, enamored as they are with activity and self-sacrifice, this attitude of simply waiting on the divine good-pleasure may appear too passive.  There is always this tendency to go too far in abandonment.  Instead of permitting God to dispose of everything as He pleases, instead of waiting in tranquility until He decides according to His good-pleasure, souls rush forward to anticipate Him, to offer themselves, to consecrate themselves, to devout themselves.  Some are unwilling to understand holy abandonment except as including this eagerness to sacrifice.  But such a self-immolating disposition requires to be closely examined.  –Abbot Vitalis Lehodey ‘Holy Abandonment’

To render abandonment (holy) possible, we have first to establish ourselves in holy indifference, and then to maintain ourselves in that state by the assiduous practice of Christian mortification. This is the labor of a lifetime.

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….abandonment (is) “a cluster or assemblage of acts of faith the most perfect, of hope the most complete and confident, of love the purest and the most loyal.” Abbot Vitalis Lehodey “Holy Abandonment”

“Our Lord,” says St Francis de Sales, “never ceases to exhort, to promise, to threaten, to forbid, to command and to inspire us in the interior of our souls, in order to turn our wills away from sin; and He leaves nothing undone for this end short of depriving us of our liberty.”  The Divine Will has been manifested to us times beyond number, and in different ways.  With a perfectly clear knowledge of what it requires from us in a matter of capital importance, indifference on our part would be criminal.  We must consequently make up our minds to carry on the combat without truce or quarter, and to expect no other assistance than the grace to prayer and fidelity.  —Abbot ‘Holy Abandonment’  

SUFFERING, more or less, we shall necessarily encounter in simple resignation and even in perfect abandonment. Our organic faculties cannot but be affected by sensible evil. Our superior powers are subject to fatigue which they must feel whether they like it or not. Besides, we are in a fallen state, where we experience an attraction towards forbidden fruit, an aversion for disagreeable duties; and consequently all the agonies of interior strife. When God requires us to sacrifice some pleasure or to suffer some affliction for His love, despite the fact that the superior part of our souls submits courageously to the divine will, the inferior part must nevertheless feel the bitterness of the sacrifice. And this cannot fail to be of frequent occurrence. For God is all intent on purifying us, detaching us, and enriching us. He desires particularly to cure us of pride by means of humiliations, of sensuality by sufferings and privations; and since the maladies are stubborn the remedies must be applied frequently and for long.  —Abbot Dom Abbot Vitalis Lehodey ‘Holy Abandonment’