Jon Foreman Quotes

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• 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.

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  Wise, Regret, Past

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

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  Funny Friendship, Funny Best Friend, Cute Friendship

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

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  Blue, Sky, Stories

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• 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

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  Kings, Crowns, World

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• 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.

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  Regret, Past, Yesterday

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Ocean, Struggle

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• 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.

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  Hate, Believe, Fighting

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

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  Running, Challenges, This Life

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Fall, Our World

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

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  Beautiful, World, Riches

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• 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.

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  Glasses, Rocks, People

  "Jon Foreman: The Switchfoot man talks about 'Fall', 'Winter', 'Spring' and 'Summer'". Interview with Mike Rimmer, Tony Cummings, www.crossrhythms.co.uk. July 2, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Perseverance, Character, Suffering

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• 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.

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  Eye, Light, Times Like These

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

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  Sunset, Sky, Looks

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

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  Blessed, Men, Thinking

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

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  Joy, Thieves, Culture

  "Recording Is the Art of Forgetting - Enjoy Yourself" by Jon Foreman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2014.

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

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  World, This World, Anything Worth Doing

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• Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there's something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.

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  Heart, Sunset, Phones

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

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  Thinking, Problem, Solve

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 redeemed

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  Beautiful, Meaningful, Song

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Distance, Mean

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• C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry.
  The song goes straight to the heart while the numbers
  and the math of it will never be able to reach that.

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  Song, Powerful, Heart

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

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  Truth Is, I Can

  "Possessed by Truth" by Jon Foreman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Calling has this weight that somehow we think that your calling is fixed. That your calling is this line that you’ve finally found and now you're on that track and that’s what you’re gonna do forever and maybe that's the case. But I feel like calling has much more to to do with the moment that you’re in.

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  Thinking, Track, Forever

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• 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.

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  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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