Bono Quotes - Page 2

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.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

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

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

If I don't understand it, it must be art.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy...

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

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

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.

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. 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.

When people say, you know, 'Good teacher,' 'Prophet,' 'Really nice guy'... this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you're left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.

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.

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.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

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.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.