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.
BONOU2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
More Bono Quotes
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I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‘Is this it? Are we still relevant?’
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The great moments of rock ‘n’ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
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I will admit that we are attracted to issues that unify people rather than divide them.
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In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
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You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life…but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what’s missing.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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You don’t become an ‘artist’ unless you’ve got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Find out what God’s doing. It’s already blessed.
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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Everyone’s got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It’s a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world’s poorest people.
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Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
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