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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Tuesday, September 1, 2026</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">Here in Pilgrim&rsquo;s Progress there is the ultimate human nostalgia for that City of God, which is the restless heart&rsquo;s true home. And even the cynical, the unbelieving and half-believing reader who goes with Christian to the end of the road must be a little shaken, may tremble to see something like a gate and also some of the glory of the place, and, glimpsing something of the company within the golden gates, may wish himself among them.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndan.htm#Rupp\">Gordon Rupp</A> (1910-1986), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndth.htm#John\">&ldquo;John Bunyan&rdquo;</A>, in <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtq.htm#SixMakers\"><I>Six makers of English Religion, 1500-1700</I></A> [1957], Ayer Publishing, 1974, p. 101");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=FEPWTvVI5LwC&q=%22there+is+the+ultimate+human+nostalgia%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev.+21:9-27;+Gal.+4:26-27;+Eph.+2:19-20;+3:6;+Phil.+3:20-21;+Heb.+12:22-24;+Rev.+21:2>Rev. 21:9-27; Gal. 4:26-27; Eph. 2:19-20; 3:6; Phil. 3:20-21; Heb. 12:22-24; Rev. 21:2</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#CityofGod\">City of God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Glory\">Glory</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Historical\">Historical</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Pilgrim\">Pilgrim</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Sight\">Sight</A>)");
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