Greg Boyle
Clergyman
1954-05-19
Books by Greg Boyle
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Thirsty, and You Gave Me Drink; Homilies and Reflections for Cycle C
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Quotes by Greg Boyle
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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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I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.
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The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.
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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.
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It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message.
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As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to a single, effective answer to the enormous problem of gangs.
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I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church.
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I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.
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We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
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We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.
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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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What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.
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I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.
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We need a pope to usher in a new era of inclusion, the end of a sinful clericalism, and a strong sense of duty to those on society's margins. The 1 billion faithful long for a leader who is fearless and driven - not by terror but by love.
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Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read.
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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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God can get tiny if we're not careful.
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I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.
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Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration.
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I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.
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