Monday of Lent I - Division
The men and women in the Bible are sinners like ourselves, but there is one sin they do not commit, our arch-sin: they do not dare confine God to a circumscribed space or division of life, “religion”. They have not the insolence to draw boundaries around God's commandments and say: “Up to this point you are sovereign, but beyond these bounds begins the sovereignty of science or society or the state.”
Martin Buber, Gates of Forgiveness, 1993, Central Conference of American Rabbis.
