Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really…

— Jon Foreman

Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me…

— Jon Foreman

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness…

— Jon Foreman

I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by…

— Jon Foreman

The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little…

— Jon Foreman

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed…

— Jon Foreman

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which…

— Jon Foreman

C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in…

— Jon Foreman

I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an…

— Jon Foreman

I’ve never used music to sell my faith and I’ve never used faith to sell my music. I think they are both…

— Jon Foreman

Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to…

— Jon Foreman

For me, the good songs are the ones that come really naturally. There are certain songs that you rework and rewrite and…

— Jon Foreman

Music is mere tuning a song with words; to some degree you have a beautiful endeavor of cosigning God's blank checks and…

— Jon Foreman

I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc.…

— Jon Foreman

I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside.…

— Jon Foreman

Darkness cannot cast out darkness. You need a light for that. Fear cannot cast out fear. You're gonna need hope for that…

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing…

— Jon Foreman

I look around and I know there's a lot in the world that I want to see changed - and I want…

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's…

— Jon Foreman

I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don't try and think about where it's going to end up,…

— Jon Foreman

If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain…

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don't know other ways to express it adequately.…

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman