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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
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
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Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- 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
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
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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
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
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- 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
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but 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
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
People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- 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
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
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'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
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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