The Real Struggle in Submission

I don't assume that renunciation goes with submission or even that renunciation is good in itself. Always you renounce a lesser good for a greater; the opposite is what sin is....The struggle to submit...is not a struggle to submit but a struggle to accept and with passion. I mean, possibly, with joy. Picture me with my ground teeth stalking joy--fully armed too as its a highly dangerous quest.

Flannery O'Connor quoted by John Piper in DESIRING GOD:MEDITATIONS OF A CHRISTIAN HEDONIST.