“Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.”
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Irish rock musician, singer of U2
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“Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.”
“There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.”
“Christians are hard to tolerate; I don’t know how Jesus does it”
“We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.”
“The God I believe in isn't short on cash, mister.”
“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...”
“I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.”
“I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.”
“I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, w...”
“Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.”
“U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.”
“When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.”
“You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. I...”
“When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly all...”
“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.”
“At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.”
“You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no w...”
“The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and...”
“I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don't read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2's audience.”
“I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.”