It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
by 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

Related topics: Belief Faith

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- 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

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono

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

I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono

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

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

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- 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

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 want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but 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

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

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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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

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

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

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

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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- 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

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

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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 less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

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

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

We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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 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

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

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas Edison

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed,
easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
- Proverb

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

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