Greg Boyle

The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this…

— Greg Boyle

I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I…

— Greg Boyle

Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.

— Greg Boyle

The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.

— Greg Boyle

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

— Greg Boyle

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

— Greg Boyle

Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is,…

— Greg Boyle

“On most days, if I'm true to myself, I just want to share my life with the poor, regardless of result. I…

— Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

— Greg Boyle

“Leon Dufour, a world-renowned Jesuit theologian and Scripture scholar, a year before he died at ninety-nine, confided in a Jesuit who was…

— Greg Boyle

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is…

— Greg Boyle

I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los…

— Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

— Greg Boyle

It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the…

— Greg Boyle

There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force…

— Greg Boyle

As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to…

— Greg Boyle

We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that…

— Greg Boyle

You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.

— Greg Boyle

“I steep in the utter fullness of not wanting to have anyone else's life but my own.”

— Greg Boyle

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

— Greg Boyle

I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce…

— Greg Boyle

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

— Greg Boyle

All politics are local, and so in church.

— Greg Boyle

“Teilhard de Chardin wrote that we must "trust in the slow work of God." Ours is a God who waits. Who are…

— Greg Boyle

I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know?…

— Greg Boyle