Gregory Boyle

“It's my first day teaching," I say to her, "Give me some advice." "Two things," she says, "One: know all their names…

— Gregory Boyle

“[W]e seek to tell each person this truth: they are exactly what God had in mind when God made them—and then we…

— Gregory Boyle

“Sometimes resilience arrives in the moment you discover your own unshakeable goodness.”

— Gregory Boyle

“Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves,…

— Gregory Boyle

“This was to be their place- outside of communion- forever. Maybe we call this the opposite of God.”

— Gregory Boyle

“This way will not pass again, and so there is a duty to be mindful of that which delights and keeps joy…

— Gregory Boyle

“No daylight to separate us. Only kinship. Inching ourselves closer to creating a community of kinship such that God might recognize it.…

— Gregory Boyle

“The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals…

— Gregory Boyle

“Salivating for success keeps you from being faithful, keeps you from truly seeing whoever's sitting in front of you. Embracing a strategy…

— Gregory Boyle

“Kinship– not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not “a man for others”; he was one with…

— Gregory Boyle

“Paradise is not a place that awaits our arrival but a present we arrive at.”

— Gregory Boyle

“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

“The principle suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace. It is a toxic shame -- a global sense of failure of…

— Gregory Boyle

“Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range.”

— Gregory Boyle

“Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves,…

— Gregory Boyle

“Jesus, in Matthew's gospel, says, "How narrow is the gate that leads to life." Mistakenly, I think, we've come to believe that…

— Gregory Boyle

“Success and failure, ultimately, have little to do with living the gospel. Jesus just stood with the outcasts until they were welcomed…

— Gregory Boyle

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a covenant between equals. Al Sharpton always says, "We're all…

— Gregory Boyle

“Jesus was not a man for others. He was one with others. There is a world of difference in that. Jesus didn't…

— Gregory Boyle

“Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace.”

— Gregory Boyle

“They say that an educated inmate will not reoffend. This is not because an education assures that this guy will get hired…

— Gregory Boyle

“We constantly lived in the paradox of precariousness. The money was never there when you needed it, and it was always on…

— Gregory Boyle

“believe that God protects me from nothing but sustains me in everything.”

— Gregory Boyle

“Generosity in Buddhism is to be relieved of the “stain of stinginess.”

— Gregory Boyle

“Can we stay faithful and persistent in our fidelity even when things seem not to succeed? I suppose Jesus could have chosen…

— Gregory Boyle