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“Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.”
― Bono, On the Move

“Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.”
― Bono

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”
― Bono

“Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.”
― Bono

“Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does 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

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

“Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.”
― Bono

“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. 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. 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.”
― Bono

“In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.”
― Bono

“Perspective is the cure for depression.”
― Bono

“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”
― Bono, U2 By U2

“The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.”
― Bono

“God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.”
― Bono

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

“Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.”
― Bono

“I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.”
― Bono

“Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.”
― Bono

“The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.”
― Bono

“At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.”
― Bono

“Laughter is eternity if joy is real.”
― Bono

“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”
― Bono

“It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.”
― Bono, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

“We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.”
― Bono

“I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.”
― Bono, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

“There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.”
― Bono

“Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.”
― Bono

“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.”
― Bono, U2 by U2

“I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.”
― Bono

“Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.”
― Bono