Pope Benedict quote

[Jack4]

This is something we should indeed learn on the day of the Immaculate Conception:  the person who abandons himself totally in God's hands does not become God's puppet, a boring "yes man"; he does not lose his freedom. Only the person who entrusts himself totally to God finds true freedom, the great, creative immensity of the freedom of good.

The person who turns to God does not become smaller but greater, for through God and with God he becomes great, he becomes divine, he becomes truly himself. The person who puts himself in God's hands does not distance himself from others, withdrawing into his private salvation; on the contrary, it is only then that his heart truly awakens and he becomes a sensitive, hence, benevolent and open person. 

 

- 8 December 2005, Cappella Papale on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council

Amen!