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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Sunday, August 17, 2025</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:0in;text-indent:.2in\">How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent, and God will speak again.");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndac.htm#Fenelon\">Fran&ccedil;ois F&eacute;nelon</A> (1651-1715), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtq.htm#SelectionsFenelon\"><I>Selections from F&eacute;nelon</I></A>, ed. Mary Wilder Tileston, Boston: Roberts Bros., 1879, p. 38");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=hFYNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38&dq=%22How+can+you+expect+God+to+speak+in+that+gentle%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hab.+2:20;+Ps.+46:10;+85:8;+Zech.+2:13;+Heb.+12:25>Hab. 2:20; Ps. 46:10; 85:8; Zech. 2:13; Heb. 12:25</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#Gentleness\">Gentleness</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub2.htm#God\">God</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Silence\">Silence</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Soul\">Soul</A>)");
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