Jon Foreman Quotes

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

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

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

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

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

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.

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

From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

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

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

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.

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.

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

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

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

Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.

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

The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.

Music is what I do; Christ is why I do it.

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

Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.

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

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

If it doesn't break your heart it isn't love

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

Nothing stays together without a fight.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

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

I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.

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

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.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

If you can have a couple of tight friends that you can tell things to, that you can say, 'Hey, this is what I'm struggling with,' and then pray and talk about it, then that's an incredible thing.

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.

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

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

We were meant to live for so much more.

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.

I've experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we're always up at these strange times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.

Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

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

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

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