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.
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More Bono Quotes
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
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Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.
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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.
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Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
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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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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God.
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We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
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If I don’t understand it, it must be art.
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The less you know, the more you believe.
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