Quotes from Jon Foreman

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

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

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.

Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.

I don't think we can solve the outside problemsuntil we solve the ones within.

If you truly love someone, you're going to be pure because true love comes from God, and God tells us to remain pure. That's good enough for me.

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

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

Nothing stays together without a fight.

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love another.

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.

Let me know that you hear me, let me know Your touch, let me know that You love me, and let that be enough

I love the idea that you can create a world through song.

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

Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

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

You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.

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.

I love a good pop song. I have no problem with the concept of doing that sort of thing. For me, it's usually what I'm inspired by, what I'm thinking about.

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man.

I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.