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
god ours
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
detention facilities god people
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.
arms god outside somehow
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.'
efforts god pigeonhole
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.
god mind
You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.
god larger
The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.
hero
Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
dumbest employers
Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
gets given latino
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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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.
demonize ought
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.