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Religion can be the enemy of God.
- Bono
I don't believe that imagining is enough.
- Bono
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
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I'm not on this trip as a tourist.
- Bono
Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono
To carry each other is not a burden at all
but a kind of privilege.
- Bono
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
- Bono
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.
- Bono
I actually enjoy being out of my depth - I thrive on it.
- Bono
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not.
- Bono
The less you know, the more you believe.
- Bono
The right to be irresponsible is a right I hold dear.
- Bono
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
My children have made me more aggressive about the world
that they're about to inhabit.
- Bono
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
I don't believe in wishful thinking.
- Bono
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
I feel exuberant. I don't pretend.
- Bono
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono
Religion often gets in the way of God.
- Bono
I think wholeness is God's design for us;
and that often amounts to embracing contradictions.
- 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
I'm not religious at all,
but I believe in God very strongly.
- Bono
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
The world is more malleable than you think
and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
- Bono
Music can change the world because it can change people.
- Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
Stop asking God to bless what you're doing.
Get involved in what God is doing -
because it's already blessed.
- Bono
I love this work I do.
It's a privilege to serve the poor.
- 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 want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- 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
You have to open yourself up,
you have to be raw;
and you have to reveal yourself,
and sometimes it's very difficult.
- Bono
There are colors and feelings and emotional terrain
that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- 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
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts.
We are all led by instinct,
and our intellect catches up later.
- 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
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
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
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- 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
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous
You have to be an original individual;
you have to find your innermost core on your own,
with no guide, no guiding scriptures.
It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry
you are bound to come to the sunrise.
Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry
has found the sunrise.
Others only believe.
Those who believe are not religious,
they are simply avoiding the great adventure
of religion by believing.
- Osho
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
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