The idea that there’s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with, but the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally. To me, as a poet, I am just in awe of that. It makes some sort of poetic sense. It’s the thing that makes me a believer, though it didn’t dawn on me for many years.
– Bono
Christmas
I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It’s almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.
– Bono
The Holy Spirit | Religion
I’m not doubting. I don’t doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It’s religion I’m doubting.
– Bono
Faith | Religion
And this wise man asked me to stop. He said, “Stop asking God to bless what you’re doing. Get involved in what God is doing — because it’s already blessed.”
– Bono
Service
All the best songs are co-written by God, y’know!
– Bono
Music
What can I give back to God for the blessings he’s poured out on me? I’ll lift high the cup of salvation – a toast to God!
– Bono
Blessings | Salvation
Mock the devil and he will flee from thee. Fear of the devil leads to devil worship.
– Bono
Satan
The idea of turning your music into a tool for evangelism is missing the point. Music is the language of the spirit anyway. Its first function is praise to creation.
– Bono
Music
God has some really weird kids.
– Bono
Christians
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.
– Bono
The Cross
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.
– Bono
Church
If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there’s a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe. And I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in “straw poverty”; i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me.
– Bono
Love
I am a friend to God, a sworn enemy of the saccharine and a believer in grace over karma.
– Bono
Grace
It’s not enough to rage against the lie…you’ve got to replace it with the truth.
– Bono
Lying | Truth
The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That’s the point. It should keep us humbled… It’s not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven.
– Bono
The Cross | Humility
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
– Bono
Service