"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger."

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"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger."

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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

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