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“found within it. There are those who are continually irritated, annoyed, anxious, depressed, and even downright furious; and there are those who have found fleeting relief from such ailments by self-medicating with some psychological or physiological trick they play on themselves—engaging in self-deceit through the “Power of Positive Thinking,” practicing self-harm with the abuse of legal or illegal substances, or dedicating themselves with unbounded effort to some vain ambition whose fleeting rewards will scarcely be noticed moments after they have begun. But, actually, there”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of History: The Imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace

“The Trinity of love is seeking souls on whom it can bestow its divine treasures. Infinite Goodness needs to give, to give itself. Few are those souls who abandon themselves totally to the sovereign will. If God is to pour a profusion of graces on a human soul, he must find Jesus living there. A soul is too finite to contain the ocean of infinite favors; but Jesus, the Illimitable, taking the place of what is limited, can satisfy in some way the immense desire of the heavenly Father. If a soul is to become an abyss, fit to be taken possession of by the Infinite, complete annihilation, in the spiritual sense, of what is human is essential; then, the substitution of Jesus for this human being and perfect continuing self-abandonment to the divine Agent. The adorable Trinity desires to pour out its treasures of mercy and love on Jesus substituted for my being. My gentle Master, taking my place, says to his Father, (still in silence, I find no other way to express it): Father, here I am to do your will. Father, the hour has come, let what you will be done in me.”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“be Continuous The present world is in many ways a rather miserable place; consequently, there are two kinds of people to be”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of History: The Imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace

“Jesus tells Luisa to intercede for those who fight for what is good and true in the world—even in politics. Furthermore, as we”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of History: The Imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace

“What sacrifice, then, is too great to spread this Kingdom of His on earth? What vanity, now clung to, is not worth casting aside for the sake of the Reign of His Will? What risk, now”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of History: The Imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace

“These people are honest about the sorry state of the world as it plays out in the details of their own trials, in the grand paradigm-shifts of geopolitics, and in everything in-between; they do not pretend these ills are anything other than things to be justly lamented and striven against. Thus, they are as far from the second group described above as a lung doctor is from a cigarette salesman. Despite this honesty, however, they never descend to the antics of those in the first group; for each and every time they are confronted with the sorry state of the world in any of its diverse incarnations, they approach such situations”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of History: The Imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace

“after Communion, I was concentrating on remaining closely united with him… I was taken by surprise… He said: “I want to deify you in the same way as I united My humanity with My divinity… The degree of holiness that I want for you, is the infinite plentitude of my own holiness, it is the holiness of my Father brought about in you through me.…”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“God’s eternal mode of activity in the soul of the human creature is the same interior state enjoyed by the blessed in heaven”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“It is a participation in the divine life in the sense that, for the eternal and supreme Being, nothing comes to an end: for him everything is present, since he himself does not come to an end and will never come to an end…”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“The theologian Fr. Edward O’Connor writes: … Jesus told Blessed Dina Belanger of a gift of “Divine Substitution,” that He would bring about. He explained it thus: ... the greatest joy a soul can give Me is to let Me raise it to the Divinity. Yes, my little spouse, I feel an immense pleasure in transforming a soul into Myself, in deifying it, in absorbing it entirely in the Divinity ... I wish to absorb you, my little spouse, to such a degree that I shall exist in your place with all the Attributes and Perfection of my Divinity ... I wish to deify you in the same manner that I united my Humanity to my Divinity in the Incarnation ... The degree of holiness that I desire for you is my own Holiness, in its infinite plenitude, the Holiness of My Father realized in you by Me. (ST, vol. & no.1, p. 36)[390]”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“in tilling is to evangelize. Redemption—and the Gospel that proclaims it—is the ultimate preparation for the Kingdom. The essence of this Gospel, the Divine Mercy, must therefore be now preached more zealously than ever. This”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of History: The Imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace

“the Queen of Heaven who, with Her Empire, continuously prays that the Kingdom of the Divine Will come on earth, and when have We ever denied Her anything? For Us,”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of History: The Imminent Glorious Era of Universal Peace

“Events take place, succeed one another, around my physical being, but my soul is no longer involved with them. Jesus is in control of these events: he sees to everything, he takes care of everything. It is as if my soul no longer had any connection with my body. This grace which the Trinity of my God grants me with so much love is a foretaste of my participation in the divine life; I say a foretaste, because it is the state of the elect in heaven, yet I, in bodily form, am still on earth.”[391”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta

“Though my 3-year-old understanding could not grasp it at the time, imprinted upon my soul nevertheless was the potency of a clear impression: the ugliness of life apart from the Will of God, and the beauty of a return to the same, no matter what had transpired in the ugly time.”
― Daniel O'Connor, The Crown of Sanctity: On the Revelations of Jesus to Luisa Piccarreta