Greg Boyle Quotes

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• If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.
• Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our…
• You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and…
• Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.
• 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.
• I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.
• Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds…
• Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.
• Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.
• Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.
• The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than…
• 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.
• You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.
• I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but…
• We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
• All politics are local, and so in church.
• At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
• God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.
• Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
• I love movies.

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