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br.writeln("<center><B>Christian Quotation of the Day</B><BR><SMALL>Tuesday, September 30, 2025</SMALL></center>");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.4in\">He might have reared a palace at a word,<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Who sometimes had not where to lay his head:<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Time was, and He who nourished crowds with bread<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Would not one meal unto Himself afford:<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Twelve legions girded with angelic sword<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Were at his beck, the scorned and buffeted:<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">He healed another&rsquo;s scratch, his own side bled,<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Side, feet, and hands, with cruel piercings gored.<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Oh wonderful the wonders left undone!<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">And scarce less wonderful than those He wrought;<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Oh self-restraint, passing all human thought,<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">To have all power, and be as having none;<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">Oh self-denying Love, which felt alone<DT style=\"margin-left:.6in;text-indent:-.4in\">For needs of others, never for its own!");
br.writeln("<DT style=\"margin-left:.4in;text-indent:-.2in\">... <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndat.htm#Trench\">Richard Chenevix Trench</A> (1807-1886), <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodndtm.htm#PoemsTrench\"><I>Poems</I></A>, London: Macmillan, 1874, p. 142");
br.writeln("(see the <A target=_blank HREF=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=rT2UEla70aYC&pg=PA142&dq=%22He+might+have%22\">book</A>; see also <A target=_blank HREF=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Phil.+2:5-7;+Matt.+8:20;+26:53;+John+20:25-27>Phil. 2:5-7; Matt. 8:20; 26:53; John 20:25-27</A>; more at <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Bread\">Bread</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub1.htm#Crowd\">Crowd</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Jesus\">Jesus</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Love\">Love</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub3.htm#Power\">Power</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Self-sacrifice\">Self-sacrifice</A>, <A HREF=\"https://www.cqod.com/cqodsub4.htm#Sleep\">Sleep</A>)");
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