Jon Foreman > Quotes

“Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.”
― Jon Foreman

“Without honesty, art is dead.”
― Jon Foreman

“I want to thrive not just survive”
― Jon Foreman

“If it doesn't break your heart it isn't love.”
― Jon Foreman

“Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is inspite of pain.”
― Jon Foreman

“There’s a certain amount of humility that is attached to wonder, and a certain amount of pride attached to knowledge and I think the moment you say ‘we know beyond a shadow of a doubt this exists’, you can’t have faith that it exists. Faith is no longer possible. So faith is only possible when doubt is possible. Faith is only possible when humility and wonder is possible. And I feel like the musical world of humility and wonder is a much wider door to enter into than the narrow confines of epistemology and things like knowledge and these really narrow boxes. That’s kind of where our songs are… [those are] the worlds our songs are trying to explore.”
― Jon Foreman

“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

“I'm not so sure that home is a place you can still get to by train.”
― Jon Foreman

“I don't think we can solve the outside problems
until we solve the ones within.”
― Jon Foreman

“The unasked questions are the most dangerous to answer.”
― Jon Foreman

“Life is short, I wanna live it well.”
― Jon Foreman

“Love alone is worth the fight”
― Jon Foreman