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Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
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Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
God's Spirit moves through us and the world
at a pace that can never be constricted
by any one religious paradigm.
I love that.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd.
In the past, U2 was trying to duck that.
Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
I am a believer. I don't wear the badge on the outside
but it is on the inside.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
Now at what point does an unpopular conviction
interfere with your own human rights?
Forced female circumcision, for instance.
The Catholic Church's stance on contraception.
The list goes on. You know, God has some really weird kids,
and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.
- Bono
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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