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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The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.
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All politics are local, and so in church.
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Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.
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We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.
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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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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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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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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.