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
joy poor
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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The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
dumbest employers
Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
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.
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If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.
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I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.
mistaken
I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
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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.
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 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.
demonize ought
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
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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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.