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" I love movies. "
Greg Boyle
Movies
I Love
Love
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Out
" The arms of God reach to embrace, and somehow you feel yourself just outside God's fingertips. "
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Feel
Embrace
God
" 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. "
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" Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all. "
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Hope
Heart
Grief
" I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang. "
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Never
Person
Gang
" Richard Rohr is a theologian that I read. "
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Richard
Theologian
Read
" God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. "
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Him
God
Our
" I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive. "
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Than
Born
Going
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Kid
Child
Difficulty
" 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
Choose
Skills
Person
" God is compassion. "
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Compassion
God
" Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story. "
Greg Boyle
Forget
Your
You
" Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to? "
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Ours
Waits
Who
" Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.' "
Greg Boyle
Cannot
Law
Gang
" The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible. "
Greg Boyle
Law
Know
Impossible
" I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen. "
Greg Boyle
Work
Believe
Gang
" My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them. "
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People
Fix
Job
" We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease. "
Greg Boyle
Know
Just
Crime
" Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything worth doing is worth failing at. We started Homeboy Plumbing. That didn't go so well. Who knew? People didn't want gang members in their homes. I just didn't see that coming. "
Greg Boyle
Doing
Want
Worth
" I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church. "
Greg Boyle
Mission
Los Angeles
Church
" All politics are local, and so in church. "
Greg Boyle
Local
Politics
Church
" Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities. "
Greg Boyle
Facilities
Promise
New
" 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 for hungry people. "
Greg Boyle
Story
People
Funny
" I didn't take my vows to the LAPD. "
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Vows
Take
" I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. "
Greg Boyle
Up
Years
Kinda
" 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.' "
Greg Boyle
God
Marriage
Compassion
" I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works. "
Greg Boyle
Helps
Works
Think
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Plan
Going
Forever
" If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve. "
Greg Boyle
Long
Respect
Community