Explore Quotes by Jon Foreman

The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.

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

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

Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.

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.

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.

Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.

Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

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.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

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

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.

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

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