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" The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. "
Greg Boyle
You
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" 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
" Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be one. "
Greg Boyle
Needs
Did
Serve
" Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away. "
Greg Boyle
Day
Stop
Will
" No kid is seeking anything when he joins a gang; he's always fleeing something. He's not being pulled; he's being pushed by the circumstances in which he finds himself. "
Greg Boyle
Always
He
Kid
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Hope
Heart
Grief
" It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the message has never been a good substitute for 'showing up' and embodying the message. "
Greg Boyle
Never
Parents
Showing Up
" 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
" You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. "
Greg Boyle
Gang
Table
Reason
" I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.' "
Greg Boyle
Say
Everything
Believe
" If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it. "
Greg Boyle
Going
You
Will
" The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption. "
Greg Boyle
Society
Power
Confidence
" My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them. "
Greg Boyle
People
Fix
Job
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Fall
Brain
Prey
" I love movies. "
Greg Boyle
Movies
I Love
Love
" The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while. "
Greg Boyle
Community
Happen
Power
" I would hope that government officials have a healthy respect for the complexity of the gang problem. They should never lose sight of the fact that there are human beings involved. There is no single solution. "
Greg Boyle
Lose
Hope
Government
" Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime. "
Greg Boyle
Proactive
Crime
Need
" God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him. "
Greg Boyle
Him
God
Our
" The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did. "
Greg Boyle
Lead
Us
Call
" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "
Greg Boyle
Measure
Wisdom
Society
" Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives. "
Greg Boyle
Kids
Found
Gangs
" We need a pope to usher in a new era of inclusion, the end of a sinful clericalism, and a strong sense of duty to those on society's margins. The 1 billion faithful long for a leader who is fearless and driven - not by terror but by love. "
Greg Boyle
Society
Love
Strong
" I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works. "
Greg Boyle
Helps
Works
Think
" We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community. "
Greg Boyle
Need
Who
Knowing
" 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. "
Greg Boyle
Relationship
People
Key
" 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
Problem
People
Gang
" We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang. "
Greg Boyle
Ought
Gang
Demonize
" Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to? "
Greg Boyle
Ours
Waits
Who
" We can't just settle for the low bar of pope as media-savvy, canny Curia manager. "
Greg Boyle
Pope
Manager
Bar
" So complex are all the ingredients that cause gang membership that it seems virtually impossible to isolate one solution that can address them all and thereby manufacture a hope for the future upon which these kids can rely. "
Greg Boyle
Gang
Hope
Future