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Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one.
— Greg Boyle
Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives.
— Greg Boyle
Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
— Greg Boyle
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.
— Greg Boyle
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.
— Greg Boyle
People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.
— Greg Boyle
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 other lives.
— Greg Boyle
People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.
— Greg Boyle
If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.
— Greg Boyle
All politics are local, and so in church.
— Greg Boyle
I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.
— Greg Boyle
I feel called to be faithful.
— Greg Boyle
We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.
— Greg Boyle
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
— Greg Boyle
The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips.
— Greg Boyle
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.
— Greg Boyle
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.
— Greg Boyle
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
— Greg Boyle
At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.
— Greg Boyle
Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
— 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? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.
— Greg Boyle
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
— Greg Boyle
I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.
— Greg Boyle
I'm not opposed to success.
— 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
My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that's the church. That's the people of God.
— Greg Boyle
I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.
— Greg Boyle