Quotes from Greg Boyle


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I'm not opposed to success.


I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.


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.


I feel called to be faithful.


God can get tiny if we're not careful.


All politics are local, and so in church.


I love movies.


The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.


Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?


I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.


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.


I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.


I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.


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.


Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.


In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma.


If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.


Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.


People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.


Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.