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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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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The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
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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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God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.
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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.'
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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.
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You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.
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Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
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The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.
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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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The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.
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People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.
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I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.
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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.