217 Quotes by Jon Foreman

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I’m reminded what it’s like to be alive.

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.

I’ve got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there’s going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they’re going to cite as their facts.

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.

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

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

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.

I’m not so sure that home is a place you can still get to by train.

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.