Reading today from Krysta Tippett’s Becoming Wise I ran across this from Rabbi Johnathan Sacks:
“Don’t think we can confine God into our categories. God is bigger than religion.”
Religion, any religion, is just that – a human attempt to “confine God into our categories.” Two thoughts occur to me. First, if each religion or individual is asked to draw a “circle of religion,” when any are compared they almost certainly share some common ground, as with the overlapping areas in a Venn Diagram. Second, our circles, all of our circles, are likely too small and don’t do justice to God.
It occurs to me... 