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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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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The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
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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?
god larger
The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.
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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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I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.
dumbest employers
Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
demonize ought
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.
join
I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.