Jon Foreman
Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.Collection: Funny Friendship
I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today is all that we will ever have 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. The wise man seeks God in the now and brings both his regrets and fears before Him. The freedom that we are offered is truly amazing: to live, today, free from even our own fallen desires. This is where I want to be.Collection: Wise
Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.Collection: Blue
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 KINGCollection: Kings
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.Collection: Regret
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.Collection: Beautiful
Darkness cannot cast out darkness. You need a light for that. Fear cannot cast out fear. You're gonna need hope for that death warrants more death. But I believe life wants more life and I'm convinced that the greatest weapon we've got is LOVE! And maybe, in a world full of fighters, in a world imploding with hate, maybe to be a lover, you gotta be a fighter. Maybe that's the biggest fight, the only fight worth fighting, the fight you're gonna be in for the rest of your life.Collection: Hate
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Beautiful
It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Perseverance
I yearn to live and love and burn, and yet so much of my time is spent faking and forgetting, faking and forgetting I carry out my disbelief with uninspired hands, my eyes shut, my emotions dulled, my spirit numb. In times like these I am in desperate need of truth to come to me like a blinding light, like a splinter in my soul, reminding me of the brevity of my time here on earth.Collection: Eye
The easiest thing to do is throw a rock. It's a lot harder to create a stained glass window. I used to get upset at the people who threw rocks but now I'd rather spend my time building the stained glass windows.Collection: Glasses
If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.Collection: Joy
Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.Collection: Sunset
For me, when I think about Christ, I think about this iconoclastic man who lived and died for the broken. And the paramount underdog, which is basically turning the world on it’s head. Blessed are the poor and blessed are the hungry, blessed are the broken, all these things that feel very backwards in our fame, power, beauty, riches hungry world. That’s who Christ is to me.Collection: Blessed
Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.Collection: World
I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within.Collection: Thinking
Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemedCollection: Beautiful
I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use it as a shield. I'm guilty of it too. I think spiritual words can do one or the other. Because when I hear people say, in a religion setting, 'Glory,' 'Praise the Lord,' 'Hallelujah,' but it doesn't mean anything, those are actually words that distance us from God, ironically enough.Collection: Spiritual
All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.Collection: Worship
I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that we’re going to be lifeless food for worms in a coffin someday. But at the same time, I feel like knowing that you’re going to die can be an incredibly rewarding, powerful knowledge. It inspires us to live in ways that we wouldn’t if we were ignorant. I feel like that has inspired me to care about every breath. For me it’s not a morbid curiosity, it’s just wanting to make sure that every moment I have here on the Earth while I am breathing is accounted for.Collection: Running
I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love.Collection: Fighting
The shadow proves the sunshine.Collection: Sunshine
That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.Collection: Journey
I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.Collection: Mean
There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.Collection: Shining
I'm continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don't fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I'm also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.Collection: Lying
The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.Collection: Our World
Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.Collection: Funny Things
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.Collection: Song
Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.Collection: Running
What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.Collection: Phones
Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enoughCollection: Enough
There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.Collection: Soul
It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.Collection: Parent
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.Collection: Generations
I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth.Collection: Mouths
I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an option. You’re not dealing with a fact like one plus one equals two—I’m gonna choose to believe that. It’s kind of one of those things where you are choosing to believe that someone loves you. That is always going to be your choice. So for me, I think that’s what makes the faith that I have volatile and explosive and dangerous and troubling. That’s what most of my songs are about.Collection: Song
For me, even if I'm not a fan of the band in general or maybe it's not the style of music I want to put on for my daughter and me when we're waking up in the morning, there's always something that I can learn from it. And I think those are the things that are surprising.Collection: Daughter
It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.Collection: Simplicity
The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.Collection: Answers
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.Collection: Song
Jesus Christ's mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.Collection: Jesus
I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside. I think about the order and the perfection of galaxies of planets in orbit and traveling around space and thinking how chaotic the wars and divorces and riots on our planet must look from outer space.Collection: War
You wake up, you wake up, another day, you wake up, you wake up, traffic still moving at the same speed, our eyes looking at the same speed, our minds thinking at the same speed, I wanna see movement, I wanna see change. I wanna wake up for real. I wanna wake up. I wanna wake up. We were meant to live.Collection: Real
For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and the craft becomes very evident, but a lot of times those aren't my favorite songs. The favorite songs are the ones that I can't even hear my own voice in.Collection: Song
I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.Collection: Writing
The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.Collection: Truth Will Set You Free
I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.Collection: Jobs