125 Quotes by Greg Boyle

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    Showing up in the lives of children is everything.

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    The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.

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    Children find themselves adrift not because the informational signposts are illegible, but because there is no one around to guide and accompany them.

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    As much as I dislike the suggestion of single solutions to complex problems, jobs are as close as we will get to a single, effective answer to the enormous problem of gangs.

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    Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

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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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