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
complexity degree high 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.
communion funny hungry people time
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.
god mind
You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.
less lives might taken
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.
badly behaved behavior burdens deeply likely recognized stand succeed succeeded success until vocabulary whose
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.
affinity anticipate gang work
I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.
politics
All politics are local, and so in church.
change knows people
Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.
business
The business of second chances is everybody's business.
below program rather
I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.
people rather
People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.
I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.
mistaken
I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
delight fill paying
If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.