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" Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' "

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" 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 you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.' "

Greg Boyle

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God

People

" Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that. "

" 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 the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear. "

" I'm not opposed to success. "

Greg Boyle

Success

Opposed

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

" The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while. "

" We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease. "

" I didn't take my vows to the LAPD. "

Greg Boyle

Vows

Take

" The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did. "

Greg Boyle

Lead

Call

" What is ultimately compelling for our children in helping them conjure images of a future for themselves is our willingness to walk with them as they do it. "

" 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 of pressures. "

" The business of second chances is everybody's business. "

" I'm not going to be here forever. I don't plan on going anywhere, but I don't know anybody for whom death is an exception. "

" The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.' "

" We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a child commits an adult crime, that kid is magically transformed into an adult. Consequently, we try juveniles as adults. "

" I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine. "

" Delegations from all over the world visit Homeboy Industries and scratch their heads as we tell them of our difficulty in placing our people in jobs after their time with us. Americans' seeming refusal to believe in a person's ability to redeem himself strikes these folks as foreign indeed. "

" Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services. "

" The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart. "

" Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration. "

" 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

Disruption

Difficult

" What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it. "

" We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation. "

" I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang. "

" Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to? "

" Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story. "

" The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips. "

" We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community. "

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

" I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness. "