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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
by Bono

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

The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- 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

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 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

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

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

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

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

Grace defies reason and logic.
- 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

Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono

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

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

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

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

Religion often gets in the way 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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- 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

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth
are rotting when I listen to the radio.
- Bono

I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God.
It's religion I'm doubting.
- 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 can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch

We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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