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God's Spirit moves through us and the world
by 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

Related topics: Spiritual Inspirational Acceptance Openness Open Unity Diversity

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

The more you see the less you know.
- 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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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- 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

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

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

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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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

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

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

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 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

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

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Mother is the name for God
in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -
after a year and a thousand miles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Non-violence requires a double faith,
faith in God and also faith in man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Know thyself, and thou shalt know the Universe and God.
- Pythagoras

From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

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