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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Thursday, August 13, 2026</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste, if he could be tempted. But of all employments, bodily labour is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the devil.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndat.htm#Taylor\">Jeremy Taylor</A> (1613-1667), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndth.htm#Holy\"><I>Holy Living</I></A> [1650], in <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtt.htm#WorksTaylor3\"><I>The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D.D.</I>, v. III</A>, London: Longman, Brown, Green &amp; Longmans, 1847, p. 65");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=wGwVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22Avoid+idleness,+and+fill+up+all+the+spaces%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Thess.+4:11-12;+Acts+20:33-35;+1+Cor.+4:12;+Eph.+4:28;+2+Thess.+3:7-12;+Tit.+3:14>1 Thess. 4:11-12; Acts 20:33-35; 1 Cor. 4:12; Eph. 4:28; 2 Thess. 3:7-12; Tit. 3:14</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Attitudes\">Attitudes</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Chastity\">Chastity</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Devil\">Devil</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Labor\">Labor</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Temptation\">Temptation</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Weakness\">Weakness</A>)");
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