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 More Quotes by Jon Foreman More Quotes From Jon Foreman Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games. Jon Foreman enough-time games play Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric. Jon Foreman guitar writing song 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. Jon Foreman hey couple struggle What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us. Jon Foreman inability three perfect 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. Jon Foreman pride mean people There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again. Jon Foreman silent reason Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough Jon Foreman let-me enough knows Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain. Jon Foreman pain tears children 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. Jon Foreman daughter morning thinking Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain. Jon Foreman spite substitutes pain 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. Jon Foreman definitions phones idols 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. Jon Foreman that-one-person responsible church 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. Jon Foreman generations bigger It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity. Jon Foreman great-things simplicity 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. Jon Foreman fire song needs 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. Jon Foreman fighting water looks I'm very reluctant to put my words into God's mouth. Jon Foreman reluctant mouths We were meant to live for so much more. 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 in my pocket. Jon Foreman pockets space song It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me. Jon Foreman call-me good-things parent
