217 Quotes by Jon Foreman

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.