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. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
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… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“On most days, if I'm true to myself, I just want to share my life with the poor, regardless of result. I want to… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“Leon Dufour, a world-renowned Jesuit theologian and Scripture scholar, a year before he died at ninety-nine, confided in a Jesuit who was caring for… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
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… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese.… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
