You hold onto religion, you know,
by 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

Related topics: Spiritual Inspirational Religion

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

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My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono

I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- 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

To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono

I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono

There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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

I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono

Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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 don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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

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

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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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

I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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

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

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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

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

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

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You hold onto religion, you know,
by Bono