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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'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
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This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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 that imagining is enough.
- 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
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- 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
There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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
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 think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
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
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't.
So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
- Jewel
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
- Jewish Proverb
If you are possessed by an idea,
you will find it expressed everywhere,
you even smell it.
- Thomas Mann
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit
which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men,
in all lands, everywhere.
Destroy this spirit and you have planted
the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
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