NICE!! :D

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PS If you're coming back to a Christian church, you might be interested in u2christians. Just a thought. :)

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Ooooh, I'll definitely check that out. Thanks! :)

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Hehe, very cool. ;)

The pastor of my church is a bit of a U2 fan, and he's quoted from ISHFWILF a few times in his sermons. One visiting pastor we had said in an alter call, "Bono once said, 'I still haven't found what I'm looking for, but we, as Christians, have found exactly that'...which is all well and good, but ISHFWILF to me is all about having faith in God, but still struggling with the doubt and confusion that goes with faith. And I think what Bono is trying to say is that we'll never truly find what we're looking for until the end of our lives, when it's all made clear. Well, that's just my opinion.

Also, one of our associate pastors quoted from Grace in a sermon. And our worship band played SYCMIOYO as an item for our Father's Day service. And we had Beautiful Day played at our latest Christmas service.

There are a few U2 fans in our church, I think. ;)

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Wow, I might have to join your parish, LOL.

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Bono was paraphrasing, from what I believe was a direct quote from the bible. But I could be wrong.

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I was watching the Age Of Aids documentary this weekend, maybe this is the Bono quote you guys are thinking of?

"Christ only speaks of judgment once, and oddly enough, it's in regard to the poor. I think it's Matthew 23. It's the famous lines, "I was naked and you clothed me. I was a prisoner and you visited me.' And then they say to Christ, "What are you talking about? You weren't." "I was sick and you came to me." And he says, "No, no, I wasn't. But as much as you do this to the least of these, you do it unto me." And that's a very powerful piece of Scripture."

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No... I don't think that was it canadanne. Maybe it wasn't a direct quote from the bible, but I do remember someone else saying "all one has to do is look in the faces of the poor to find God" or something along those lines.

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That's what I thought. I tried googling it and found a number of similar quotes. That's why I thought if Bono had said it, it was a longer time ago than "recently."

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Now, for some reason St. Augustine has been in my head for the past couple hours. Perhaps that's where I remember the quote from?

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i think it could possibly come from this address bono made at the 54th national prayer breakfast. This could be the quote, but I might be wrong...

Check Judaism. Check Islam. Check pretty much anyone. I mean, God may well be with us in our mansions on the hill. I hope so. He may -- may well be with us in all manner of controversial stuff. Maybe, maybe not. But the one thing we can all agree -- all faiths, all ideologies -- is that God is with the vulnerable and poor.

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 cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

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Interesting... my parents heard their priest speak about Bono for his homily back in Christmas 2005... made me sad that I missed out.

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i wouldn't say our pastor has ever incorporated them into a preach (that i can remember), but the principle of my bible college LOVES them and uses the elevation tour dvd every year on orientation day. i confess, i cried when i saw it! haha!

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