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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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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We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
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Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.
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Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.
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I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.
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The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.
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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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Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.
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People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
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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.
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You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.
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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.