Top 100 Jon Foreman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The shadow proves the sunshine.”

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

3. “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

4. “Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.”

— Jon Foreman

5. “If it doesn’t break your heart it isn’t love.”

— Jon Foreman

6. “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

7. “Life is a battlefield. I don’t have enough time on the planet to play games.”

— Jon Foreman

8. “Anything worth doing in this world is incredibly difficult to do.”

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

10. “All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.”

— Jon Foreman

11. “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

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

— Jon Foreman

13. “There’s a time to be silent – to build up a reason to sing again.”

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

15. “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.”

— Jon Foreman

16. “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

17. “It’s a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.”

— Jon Foreman

18. “Live rather than talk. Talk is cheap and the tabloids scream about it every day.”

— Jon Foreman

19. “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.”

— Jon Foreman

20. “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

21. “Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.”

— Jon Foreman

22. “My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what’s worth living for in this life.”

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

24. “Nothing stays together without a fight.”

— Jon Foreman

25. “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

26. “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

27. “Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.”

— Jon Foreman

28. “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

29. “The truth will set you free, but it’s only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.”

— Jon Foreman

30. “The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.”

— Jon Foreman

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there’s going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places.”

— Jon Foreman

35. “Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?”

— Jon Foreman

36. “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.”

— Jon Foreman

37. “Think deeply about life, it’s worth it!”

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

39. “Music is what I do; Christ is why I do it.”

— Jon Foreman

40. “Sometimes the things that hurt are worth the pain.”

— Jon Foreman

41. “If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.”

— Jon Foreman

42. “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

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

46. “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

47. “Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.”

— Jon Foreman

48. “Love alone is worth the fight.”

— Jon Foreman

49. “My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.”

— Jon Foreman

50. “Music is admitted under the skin without permission.”

— Jon Foreman