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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
Related topics: Spiritual
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- 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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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
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- 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
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- 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
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- Bono
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- 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'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- 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
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
Religion can be the enemy 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
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 want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- 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 don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- 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
I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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
We can, if we get up off our ass, change the world.
- 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
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
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
Just stop it. Seriously.
Whatever it is. Just stop it.
If only for an hour, a day, a week.
Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse
of what the change would actually look like.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Start living now.
Stop saving the good china
for that special occasion.
Stop withholding your love
until that special person materializes.
Every day you are alive is a special occasion.
Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
- Mary Manin Morrissey
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
- Rumi
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
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