Jon Foreman Quotes - Page 3

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• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

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  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• 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.

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  Teaching, Voice, Desert

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• 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.

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  Pockets, World, Belief

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Believe, Different

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

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  Kings, Two, Differences

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• My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.

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  Dying, Needs, Looks

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• I have horrible acting ability. I can only be one thing and that's it. So for better, for worse, that's all I've got to offer is me. I've got nothing else.

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  Acting, Horrible, Ability

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• I’ve never used music to sell my faith and I’ve never used faith to sell my music. I think they are both intrinsic parts of who I am. We’ve always tried to define our music outside of genres…what is a genre? A genre’s a cage or a box and for us our music is best with fangs and some claws running free in the wild.

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  Running, Thinking, Who I Am

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

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  Sunset, Thinking, Sunrise

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

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  Pain, Substitutes, Spite

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• I often use music as a handle for very emotionally explosive substances: love, sex, God, fear, doubt, politics, the economics of the soul - these are daunting thoughts in the back of my mind that I rarely visit without the safety gloves of song.

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  Song, Sex, Safety

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• 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.

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  Church, That One Person, Responsible

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

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  Silent, Reason

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• 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

  Song, Thinking, Littles

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Think deeply about life, it's worth it!

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  Thinking, Worth It

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• The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.

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  Stars, Culture, Want

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

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  Nbc, Broken, Heaven

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• 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.

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  Swimming, Way To Live, Drowning

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• 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.

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  Perfect, Inability, Three

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• 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.

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  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I'm not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn't really need a salesman, and what these songs are are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that's definitely a part of it.

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  Song, Religious, Mean

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Water, Looks

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• 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.

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  Our World, Order, True Life

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• We were meant to live for so much more.

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  "Song: "Meant to Live"". 2003.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Pride, People

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