Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
Erwin McmanusRead
I think a lot of us are not on a path; we're in a rut. We have confused comfort with peace, belief with faith, safety with wisdom, wealth with blessing, and existence with life.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that many individuals mistake temporary comfort for deeper fulfillment and true living.
Erwin McManus highlights the dangers of complacency and the confusion between superficial states and profound truths. He emphasizes that many people settle into a routine that lacks genuine purpose, mistaking material comfort, blind belief, and superficial safety for the richer experiences of peace, faith, wisdom, blessings, and true existence. This reflection invites readers to examine their own lives and seek authenticity beyond mere survival.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing true happiness.
Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.
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The future awaits those with the courage to create it.
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One....The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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