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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Thursday, July 23, 2026</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">That earth and that heaven, which spent God himself, Almighty God, six days in furnishing, Moses sets up in a few syllables, in one line: In the beginning God created heaven and earth. If a Livie or a Guicciardine, or such extensive and voluminous authors, had had this story in hand, God must have made another world, to have made them a library to hold their books, of the making of this world. Into what wire would they have drawn out this earth? Into what leaf-gold would they have beat out these heavens? It may assist our conjecture herein to consider, that amongst those men, who proceed with a sober modesty, and limitation in their writing, and make a conscience not to clog the world with unnecessary books; yet the volumes which are written by them, upon this beginning of Genesis, are scarce less than infinite. God did no more but say, Let this and this be done; and Moses doth no more but say, that upon God&rsquo;s saying it was done. God required not Nature to help him to do it; Moses required not Reason to help him to be believed.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndac.htm#Donne\">John Donne</A> (1573-1631), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtt.htm#WorksDonne4\"><I>Works of John Donne</I>, vol. IV</A>, London: John W. Parker, 1839, Sermon CIX, p. 491");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=5YsEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA491&dq=%22That+earth+and+that+heaven,+which+spent+God%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.+2:1-2;+1:26;+Eccl.+12:12>Gen. 2:1-2; 1:26; Eccl. 12:12</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Belief\">Belief</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Book\">Book</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Creation\">Creation</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Earth\">Earth</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#God\">God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Heaven\">Heaven</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Nature\">Nature</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Providence\">Providence</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Reason\">Reason</A>)");
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