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
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.
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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.
capital complex gangs los members
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.
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.
folks half heights life
I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.
I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.
demonize ought
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
business
The business of second chances is everybody's business.
hero
Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
politics
All politics are local, and so in church.