Uniting our Will with God

(St. Maximilian Kolbe - found here)

“St. Maximilian Kolbe presented the way to holiness as a simple equation involving free will:

V + v = S

Each V stands for ‘voluntas’, Latin for ‘will’. The large V is the will of God. The small v is your own will–your choices. If we add them, rather than keeping them apart, we achieve the S: sanctitas, or holiness.

‘If we unite our will to the will of God, losing ourselves in it as a droplet of water loses itself in the ocean, sanctity is achieved.’ – St. Kolbe, Roman Conference IV

Notice that St. Kolbe doesn’t tell us that the answer is God’s will alone. That isn’t how God set it up. He did give us free will; we’re not robots. To achieve holiness ourselves–human sanctity–we need both the ability to choose (v) and the following of God’s will (V).”
~Joe Wetterling