There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy. Jon Foreman More Quotes by Jon Foreman More Quotes From Jon Foreman When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing. Jon Foreman hurricanes surfing hands If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me. Jon Foreman if-you-truly-love-someone pure good-enough I look around and I know there's a lot in the world that I want to see changed - and I want to be a part of something bigger than myself. I want to see things change, in myself as much as in the world around me. Jon Foreman want looks world The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with. Jon Foreman bittersweet kind faces In my opinion, the best way of showing someone the best way to live life is by living it. Jon Foreman way-to-live live-life opinion C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in poetry. Jon Foreman powerful heart song Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another. Jon Foreman love-one-another outstanding debt I use to think that the friction was a bad thing. Everything is to ease pain in our society; pain is very much the enemy. And I don't think that's true. Tension is a good thing. To be pulled tight: that's the only way you can make a proper noise on the guitar or violin. Jon Foreman guitar pain thinking Nothing stays together without a fight. Jon Foreman fighting together Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world. Jon Foreman decision dog mean If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind. Jon Foreman thieves joy culture 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. Jon Foreman powerful running thinking Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day. Jon Foreman talk-is-cheap tabloids scream I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world. Jon Foreman mean believe thinking 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. Jon Foreman nudge-nudge pride dog Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two. Jon Foreman differences kings two The shadow proves the sunshine. Jon Foreman sunshine prove shadow I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life. Jon Foreman tunes soul world Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do. Jon Foreman anything-worth-doing this-world world The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years. Jon Foreman running mean years
