125 Quotes by Greg Boyle

I find consolation in a no doubt apocryphal story of Pope John XXIII. Apparently at night he’d pray: “I’ve done everything I can today for your church. But it’s your Church, and I’m going to bed.

St. Paul challenges us to “dedicate ourselves to thankfulness” and so I will.

Mother Teresa diagnosed the world’s ills in this way: we’ve just “forgotten that we belong to each other.” Kinship is what happens to us when we refuse to let that happen.

It is an essential tenet of Buddhism that we can begin to change the world by first changing how we look at the world.

Teilhard de Chardin wrote that we must “trust in the slow work of God.” Ours is a God who waits. Who are we not to? It takes what it takes for the great turnaround. Wait for it.

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.'

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

I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.