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Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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
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I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
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 feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- 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
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- 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
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
Don't lie down. Get up.
- 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
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- 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
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
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'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
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -
you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain
Jesus was all right,
but his disciples were thick and ordinary.
It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
- John Lennon
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
- John Lennon
If it turns out that there IS a God,
I don't think that he's evil.
I think that the worst you can say about him
is that basically he's an underachiever.
- the movie Love and Death
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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