Your faith is what you do daily, you can't separate your heart from your body and keep them both alive, they're almost the same thing. Jon Foreman More Quotes by Jon Foreman More Quotes From Jon Foreman 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. Jon Foreman regret wise past Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. Jon Foreman funny-best-friend funny-friendship cute-friendship Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies. Jon Foreman stories sky blue 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 Jon Foreman crowns kings world 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. Jon Foreman ocean struggle beautiful 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. Jon Foreman rocks glasses people 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. Jon Foreman regret yesterday past My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life. Jon Foreman this-life challenges running 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. Jon Foreman hate fighting believe 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. Jon Foreman our-world beautiful fall 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. Jon Foreman perseverance suffering character It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do. Jon Foreman riches beautiful world 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. Jon Foreman times-like-these light eye 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 sunset sky looks 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. Jon Foreman blessed men thinking I don’t think we can solve the outside problems until we solve the ones within. Jon Foreman solve problem thinking 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 Jon Foreman song beautiful meaningful That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. Jon Foreman journey life-is rivers 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. Jon Foreman track forever thinking I think of myself as more of a lover rather than a fighter, but sometimes you have to fight for what you love. Jon Foreman fighting lovers thinking
