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“In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.”
-- Bono

#Stars #Rocks #Views
“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim”
-- Bono

#Dream #Swim #Sorrow
“But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.”
-- Bono

#Jesus #Hands #Looks
“The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.”
-- Bono

#Christian #Powerful #Years
“What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.”
-- Bono

#Ends #Pops #Folks
“God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.”
-- Bono

#Ideas #Might #Tiny
“Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.”
-- Bono

#World #Awful #Kind
“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.”
-- Bono

#Love #Inspirational #Motivational
“I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.”
-- Bono

#Mother #Father #Sunday
“Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.”
-- Bono

#Enemy #Building
“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

#Inspirational #Stars #Fun
“The less you know, the more you believe.”
-- Bono

#Believe #Humility #Favourite
“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
-- Bono

#Inspirational #Change #Music
“God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.”
-- Bono

#Religious #Moving #Pace
“You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.”
-- Bono

#Kids #Knowing God #Company
“You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.”
-- Bono

#Dream #Strong #Real
“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
-- Bono

#Beautiful #Respect #Being Yourself
“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”
-- Bono

#Impossible #Exposing Yourself #Abandon
“Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.”
-- Bono

#Brother #Distance #Unity
“Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.”
-- Bono

#Book #Giving #Persons
“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.”
-- Bono

#Inspirational #Mother #Children
“The job of art is to chase ugliness away.”
-- Bono

#Art #Jobs #Consciousness
“It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.”
-- Bono

#Air #Poverty #Scripture
“So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.”
-- Bono

#Equality #Rights #Talking
“I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.”
-- Bono

#Song #Writing #Darkness
“I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.”
-- Bono

#Wish #Trying #Serious
“Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.”
-- Bono

#Kings #Real #Thinking
“My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.”
-- Bono

#Inspirational #Simple #Understanding
“For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.”
-- Bono

#Littles #Moments #Lost
“It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.”
-- Bono

#Ambition #Growth #Chivalry

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