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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Sunday, October 12, 2025</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">The life of this planet, and especially its human life, is a life in which something has gone wrong, and badly wrong. Every time we see an unhappy face, an unhealthy body, hear a bitter or despairing word, we are reminded of that. The occasional dazzling flashes of pure beauty, pure goodness, pure love which show us what God wants and what He is, only throw into more vivid relief the horror of cruelty, greed, oppression, hatred, ugliness.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndat.htm#Underhill\">Evelyn Underhill</A> (1875-1941), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtd.htm#EvelynUnderhillEssentialWritings\"><I>Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings</I></A>, Orbis Books, 2003, p. 37");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=Xv_YAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+life+of+this+planet,+and+especially%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom.+8:20-22;+Gen.+3:16-19;+5:29;+Ps.+127:2;+Eccl.+2:17;+Isa.+24:5-6>Rom. 8:20-22; Gen. 3:16-19; 5:29; Ps. 127:2; Eccl. 2:17; Isa. 24:5-6</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Beauty\">Beauty</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Bitterness\">Bitterness</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#God\">God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Goodness\">Goodness</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Life\">Life</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Love\">Love</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Purity\">Purity</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Sin\">Sin</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Wrong\">Wrong</A>)");
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