U2 Lyrics

10 Spiritual Lessons from U2 Lyrics

In his new book "We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel According to U2," Greg Garrett examines the popular rock band's music and found that Bono and the rest of the gang teach—and preach—through music in ways that "can illuminate our lives and shape a better world."

Here he selects ten essential spiritual lessons that we can learn from U2, each illustrated with a line from one of their songs.

And the first lesson is…

Excerpted with permission from "We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel According to U2," by Greg Garrett, published in 2009 from Westminster John Knox Press.