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Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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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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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
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Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.
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There's nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.
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Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
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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.
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You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
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I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.
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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.
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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I don't like the name, U2, actually.
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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
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Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
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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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Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
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So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
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It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.
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It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
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God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
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