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Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

Jon Foreman

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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
Hope
Character
Disappoint
Discouraged
Produces
Perseverance
Brings
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Suffering

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If you can have a couple of tight friends that you can tell things to, that you can say, 'Hey, this is what I'm struggling with,' and then pray and talk about it, then that's an incredible thing.
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Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.
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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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Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.
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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?
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Life is a battlefield. I don't have enough time on the planet to play games.
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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Well, the funny thing is, you are never the same person that you were the day before.
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Nothing stays together without a fight.
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I simply want the music to to find its way to open-minded people.
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My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.
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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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