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If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

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
Robbed
Thief
Thieves
Comparison
Blind
Joy
Culture

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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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When I'm happy, when I'm enjoying life, I'm home, I'm surfing, I'm spending time with my wife, my friends and I'm not thinking about the pain. And then the moment I encounter something that feels difficult, I feel like that's when, for me, I turn to writing and thinking and maybe a song comes from that.
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I love the idea that you can create a world through song.
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
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When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.
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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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I think that's the beauty of live music - creating from the destruction.
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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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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.
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There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.
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