My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later
It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
When you align yourself with God’s purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.
Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
The less you know, the more you believe.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.
At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
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.
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.
We can’t fix all problems but we must fix the ones we can.
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
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’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.
If I don’t understand it, it must be art.