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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Saturday, December 13, 2025</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">Almighty and most merciful Father, who hast created and preserved me, have pity on my weakness and corruption. Deliver me from habitual wickedness and idleness; enable me to purify my thoughts, to use the faculties which Thou hast given me with honest diligence, and to regulate my life by thy holy word.<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">Grant me, O Lord, good purposes and steady resolution, that I may repent my sins, and amend my life. Deliver me from the distresses of vain terror, and enable me, by thy grace, to will and to do what may please Thee; that when I shall be called away from this present state, I may obtain everlasting happiness, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndag.htm#JohnsonS\">Samuel Johnson</A> (1709-1784), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtm.htm#Prayers\"><I>Prayers and Meditations</I></A>, London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1806, April 22, 1764, p. 43-44");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=3ekTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA43&dq=%22most+merciful+Father,+who+hast+created+and+preserved+me%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Thess.+4:7;+Ps.+31:1-2;+69:14;+109:21;+Rom.+7:24-25;+Phil.+3:10-11;+2+Tim.+1:8-9>1 Thess. 4:7; Ps. 31:1-2; 69:14; 109:21; Rom. 7:24-25; Phil. 3:10-11; 2 Tim. 1:8-9</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Corruption\">Corruption</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Deliverance\">Deliverance</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Diligence\">Diligence</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Grace\">Grace</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Prayers\">Prayers</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Repentance\">Repentance</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Resolve\">Resolve</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Weakness\">Weakness</A>)");
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