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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Tuesday, July 1, 2025</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, except when we see them in the wrong light. When we see them as dispensed by the hand of God, when we know that it is our loving Father who abases and distresses us, our sufferings will lose their bitterness and become even a matter of consolation.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndal.htm#Lawrence\">Brother Lawrence</A> (c.1605-1691), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtm.htm#Practice2\"><I>The Practice of the Presence of God</I></A>, New York, Revell, 1895, <I>Fifteenth Letter</I>, p. 43-44");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=ZcJZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA43&dq=%22The+sorest+afflictions+never+appear+intolerable%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom.+8:18;+Matt.+5:11-12;+John+16:33;+2+Cor.+4:17-18;+1+Pet.+1:6-7>Rom. 8:18; Matt. 5:11-12; John 16:33; 2 Cor. 4:17-18; 1 Pet. 1:6-7</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Abasement\">Abasement</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Affliction\">Affliction</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Consolation\">Consolation</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Light\">Light</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Weakness\">Weakness</A>)");
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