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’