Jon Foreman Quotes

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

Nothing stays together without a fight.

Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.

Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.

My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.

I don't think we can solve the outside problems
until we solve the ones within.

IF YOU APPROACH THE WORLD WITH THE APRON OF A SERVANT,THEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO GO PLACES THAT YOU CAN'T GO IF YOU APPROACH IT WITH THE CROWN OF A KING

I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.

I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

It's a good thing my parents named me Jon because that's what everyone calls me.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.

That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

I want to thrive not just survive

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

Your faith is what you do daily, you can't separate your heart from your body and keep them both alive, they're almost the same thing.

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

Music is admitted under the skin without permission.

There's nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.

There's a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.

It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.

I look for places where there's no one out on the water. I'd rather surf a wave to myself than fight a crowd.

Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

I'm not so sure that home is a place you can still get to by train.

Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.

We were meant to live for so much more,

Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough

It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

Grace? Undeserved kindness? Blessings? Whatever we call it, I'm pretty sure we get doses of luck more than we'll ever know.

Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.

Without honesty, art is dead.

Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.

If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.

Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.

In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it.

When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that's when it's beautiful, and that's when we change.

As far as when I'm writing a song, I think I'm writing first and foremost for myself.

I think sunrises are rarer for me, but sunset is my favourite time of day.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.

I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you're worshipping.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is inspite of pain.

Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.

The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.