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Grace defies reason and logic. ...
by Bono

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

Related topics: Spiritual Inspirational

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono

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

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

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono

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

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- 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 actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono

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

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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono

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

I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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 less you know, the more you believe.
- 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

There are righteous people working
in a whole rainbow of belief systems -
from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters
to charismatic Catholics.
- 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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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

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

People should be angry about a lot of things
and the peace-and-love thing
doesn't sit comfortably with me at all.
- Bono

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

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

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

Just when the caterpillar thought
the world was over, it became a butterfly.
- Anonymous

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I give thanks for the blessings of this food
as a symbol of my gratitude
for all the manifold blessings of this life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou

I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley

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