125 Quotes by Greg Boyle

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.

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.'

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

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

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.

Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.

W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.