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Greg Boyle

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

— Greg Boyle future

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

— Greg Boyle success

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.

— Greg Boyle world

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people.

— Greg Boyle funny

Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.

— Greg Boyle hope

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

— Greg Boyle love

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

— Greg Boyle hope

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

— Greg Boyle society

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

— Greg Boyle power

Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.

— Greg Boyle science

Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'

— Greg Boyle marriage

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

— Greg Boyle art

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

— Greg Boyle guilt

At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.

— Greg Boyle war

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

— Greg Boyle wit

Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.

— Greg Boyle will

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.

— Greg Boyle people

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

— Greg Boyle longing

The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.

— Greg Boyle self

You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.

— Greg Boyle you

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

— Greg Boyle art

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

— Greg Boyle world

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

— Greg Boyle business

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

— Greg Boyle people

Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.

— Greg Boyle future

Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.

— Greg Boyle future

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