Top 100 Jon Foreman Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Jon Foreman

53. “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

54. “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

55. “I’m continually wrestling with the idea that there are certain things in this world that simply don’t fit. The idea that I have this longing for beauty and truth, and yet I’m also attracted to things that are very dark the lies that exist within me and outside of me.”

— Jon Foreman

56. “Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.”

— Jon Foreman

57. “Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.”

— Jon Foreman

58. “I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.”

— Jon Foreman

59. “Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.”

— Jon Foreman

60. “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

61. “I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.”

— Jon Foreman

62. “As far as when I’m writing a song, I think I’m writing first and foremost for myself.”

— Jon Foreman

63. “If you’re leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you’re singing.”

— Jon Foreman

64. “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

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

— Jon Foreman

66. “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

67. “My best sunsets are always going to be in my home town, San Diego. Watching the sunset from the Pacific knowing that you’re sleeping in your own bed, there’s something special about that.”

— Jon Foreman

68. “There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There’s a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.”

— Jon Foreman

69. “Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.”

— Jon Foreman

70. “Inside all of us, we know the truth of life that there’s something more than the next new cell phone or gadget or relationship and that our heart beats in time with the sunset.”

— Jon Foreman

71. “Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God’s voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.”

— Jon Foreman

72. “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

73. “Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it’s through someone else’s song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.”

— Jon Foreman

74. “I’ve experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we’re always up at these strange times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.”

— Jon Foreman

75. “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

76. “There are tears that shine like a smile, sobbing like a sunrise for the truth.”

— Jon Foreman

77. “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

78. “I think surfing and music are both places of release and self expression where there are no rules, and you can find a different form of freedom that you can’t anywhere else.”

— Jon Foreman

79. “I’m always thinking about songs, I’m thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.”

— Jon Foreman

80. “Jesus Christ’s mercy and power indwells us and gives us the strength to make a positive difference.”

— Jon Foreman

81. “The kingdom of heaven is comprised of the broken, the fatherless, the poor, the starving. Nothing that could create good ratings for NBC.”

— Jon Foreman

82. “Pain is a common emotion in many of my songs mainly because I often don’t know other ways to express it adequately. In my songs I wrestle with the things that I don’t understand.”

— Jon Foreman

83. “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

84. “I’ve always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.”

— Jon Foreman

85. “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

86. “I think that’s the beauty of live music – creating from the destruction.”

— Jon Foreman

87. “There is a deeper portion of our being that we rarely allow others to see. Call it a soul maybe, this is the place that holds the most value. All else can drift but this. When this dies our body has no meaning.”

— Jon Foreman

88. “I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.”

— Jon Foreman

89. “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

90. “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

91. “That’s what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.”

— Jon Foreman

92. “Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself – even finding places that you’ve rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.”

— Jon Foreman

93. “I’m not really one to be on camera, I’d rather be writing songs.”

— Jon Foreman

94. “I try to write songs just for the song itself. I don’t try and think about where it’s going to end up, that way you’re writing for the good of the song.”

— Jon Foreman

95. “I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.”

— Jon Foreman

96. “I usually write from my own experience, and that’s definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven’t figured it out yet.”

— Jon Foreman

97. “Celebrity is a currency with an exchange rate almost as strong as anonymity.”

— Jon Foreman

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

— Jon Foreman

99. “Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.”

— Jon Foreman

100. “I’ve never really had a desk job, but I’ve died one day at a time all over the place.”

— Jon Foreman