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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Sunday, January 4, 2026</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndat.htm#Kempis\">Thomas &agrave; Kempis</A> (1380-1471), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtm.htm#Of\"><I>Of the Imitation of Christ</I></A> [1418], Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1877, III.lvii., p. 227");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"https://cqod.com/r/rs481\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Gen.+3:12-13;+Job+40-41;+Ps.+119:137>Gen. 3:12-13; Job 40-41; Ps. 119:137</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Angel\">Angel</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#God\">God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Man\">Man</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Sin\">Sin</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Virtue\">Virtue</A>)");
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