I come from Ireland and I've seen the damage of religious warfare.
by 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

Related topics: Religion

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

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

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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

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

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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

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

You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- 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

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

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

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

The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie