Bono Quotes
- All Quotes
-
Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.
-
Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
-
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
-
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
-
Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.
-
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.
-
So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.
-
In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
-
I'm the man that brought you the mullet.
-
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
-
But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.
-
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.
-
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.
-
I don't like the name, U2, actually.
-
The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
-
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.
-
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
-
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
-
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.
-
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...
-
It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.