“Thomas Wolfe, in You Can’t Go Home Again, writes, “To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“It's my first day teaching," I say to her, "Give me some advice." "Two things," she says, "One: know all their names by tomorrow.… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“[W]e seek to tell each person this truth: they are exactly what God had in mind when God made them—and then we watch, from… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.” — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude. In Scripture, Jesus is in a house so packed that no one can come through the door anymore. So… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share
“This was to be their place- outside of communion- forever. Maybe we call this the opposite of God.” — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“This way will not pass again, and so there is a duty to be mindful of that which delights and keeps joy at the… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“No daylight to separate us. Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it. Soon we imagine, with God, this circle of compassion. Then we imagine no one standing outside of that circle, moving ourselves closer to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share
“The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals on our… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“Salivating for success keeps you from being faithful, keeps you from truly seeing whoever's sitting in front of you. Embracing a strategy and an… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“Kinship– not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not “a man for others”; he was one with them. There… — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“Paradise is not a place that awaits our arrival but a present we arrive at.” — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
“Living the gospel, then, is less about “thinking outside the box” than about choosing to live in this ever-widening circle of inclusion.” — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
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