Bono Quotes

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.

I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

I feel like when you say 'activist,' you have to have so much clarity, and I don't always necessarily have so much clarity on how I want to help others, I just have this weird, deep urge to help other people. I'm trying to let God guide my body and use it as whatever kind of vehicle or vessel it needs to be.

I believe in one principle: Do your work and leave the rest to God.

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!

Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.