Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle
Gregory "Greg" Joseph Boyleis an American Jesuit priest. He is the founder and Director of Homeboy Industries and former pastor of Dolores Mission Church...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth19 May 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
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Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
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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.
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Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
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W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name.
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The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
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I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.'
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Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming.
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We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
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The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.
You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.
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I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.
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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.
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We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.