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.
delight fill paying
If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.
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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Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
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You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you.
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Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.
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Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.