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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Sunday, December 7, 2025</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">Be unwilling then, if thou wouldest not offend Caesar, to possess worldly goods. And thou rightly teachest, first to render the things which be Caesar&rsquo;s. For no one can be the Lord&rsquo;s unless he has first renounced the world. Oh most galling chain! To promise to God, and pay not. Far greater is the contract of faith than that of money.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndaa.htm#Ambrose\">St. Ambrose of Milan (Aurelius Ambrosius)</A> (339-397), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndta.htm#CatenaAurea32\"><I>Catena aurea</I>, v. III, part 2</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndaa.htm#Aquinas\">Thomas Aquinas</A>, p. 663");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=6RRMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA663&dq=%22Be+unwilling+then,+if+thou+wouldest+not+offend+Caesar%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+20:19-26;+John+15:19;+Acts+4:34-35;+5:1-11;+Rom.+12:2;+Col.+3:1-2;+1+Tim.+6:10;+1+John+2:15>Luke 20:19-26; John 15:19; Acts 4:34-35; 5:1-11; Rom. 12:2; Col. 3:1-2; 1 Tim. 6:10; 1 John 2:15</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Faith\">Faith</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#God\">God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Possession\">Possession</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Renunciation\">Renunciation</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#World\">World</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Worldly\">Worldly</A>)");
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