125 Quotes by 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.

Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.

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.

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.

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

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.

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.