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Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono
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The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
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
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- 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
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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
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'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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
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! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- 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
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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 righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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 don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- Bono
U2 is an original species...
there are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
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
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
Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wedding is just like a funeral
except that you get to smell your own flowers.
- Grace Hansen
For food that stays our hunger,
For rest that brings us ease,
For homes where memories linger,
We give our thanks for these.
- Anonymous
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton
I give thanks for the blessings of this food
as a symbol of my gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce,
and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper
I know, to banish anger altogether
from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort.
It can be done only by God's grace.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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