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Greg Boyle
Greg Boyle
American Clergyman
Born: May 19, 1954
Church Gang God People Will You
Related authors: Billy Graham Charles R. Swindoll Henry Ward Beecher Jim Elliot Joel Osteen John C. Maxwell Norman Vincent Peale Thomas S. Monson
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. Greg Boyle
Success You Behavior Language Valuable Those Recognized Bad Bad Behavior Wounded Vocabulary Kinship Something More Bear Badly Until Likely Least Than Behaved Burdens Succeed Succeeded Success Is Stand Whose Deeply Belligerent
Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society. Greg Boyle
Society Possible Civilized Civilized Society Redemption Measure
Abject poverty, political instability, torture, and other abuses push thousands across our border. There is not a deterrent imaginable that equals the conditions that force their migration. Greg Boyle
Political Poverty Other Our Border Thousands Torture Abject Deterrent Instability Push Abuse Force Equals Conditions Migration Across Imaginable
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. Greg Boyle
Only Them Us
If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it. Greg Boyle
Day You Will Pretty Delight Attention Joyful Lot Going Then Paying Fill
Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that. Greg Boyle
Work You Own Difficulties Relapse Frankly Folks Most Likely Dealing Least Happens Not Interested Interested Succeed Who Based
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. Greg Boyle
World Matter Other Out Taken Wrong Idea Than Just Might Root Less Lives
For over twenty years, Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with those on the margins and those whose burdens are more than they can bear; it stands with the poor and the powerless, with the easily-despised and the readily-left out. Greg Boyle
Those Out More Bear Over Powerless Industries Years Than Burdens Poor Stand Stands Twenty Chosen Whose Margins
We are among the handful of countries that has difficulty distinguishing juveniles from adults where crime is concerned. We are convinced that if a child commits an adult crime, that kid is magically transformed into an adult. Consequently, we try juveniles as adults. Greg Boyle
Try Crime Difficulty Kid Distinguishing Adult Countries Concerned Handful Child Where Transformed Convinced Among Consequently
The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure. Greg Boyle
God Heart Our Than Conjure Larger Desire Imaginations
Showing up in the lives of children is everything. Greg Boyle
Everything Up Children Showing Showing Up Lives
What is ultimately compelling for our children in helping them conjure images of a future for themselves is our willingness to walk with them as they do it. Greg Boyle
Future Walk Our Willingness Ultimately Children Them Themselves Conjure Helping Compelling Images
I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. Greg Boyle
Guilt Gave Kinda Years Years Ago Up Lent
I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful. Greg Boyle
Hopeful Always Am Optimistic
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
Good Will Parents Become Imitate Kids Rarely Seldom Never Fail Message Accepted Been Up Listen Substitute Them Communicating Showing Showing Up
The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization? Greg Boyle
Truth Truth Is Will Our Response Promise Invariably Only Brutality Safe Up Commit Children Victimization Victimized Them Certain Grow Grow Up Keeping
You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works. Greg Boyle
Positive You Sports Crime Community Programs Intervene Kids Members High Prevent Area Joining Mentoring Adult Know Employment Policing Alternatives Deal Real Offering After-School Engagement Help Gang Gangs Works Activity Lives
You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it. Greg Boyle
You Sit Negotiate Table Talk Reason Gang Gang Violence Violence
What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it. Greg Boyle
Will Be True Symptoms Address About Fail True Know Gang Gang Violence Violence
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. Greg Boyle
Funny Time People Funny Story Hungry Perfect No-One Perfect People Always Story Communion
In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. Greg Boyle
World Dilemma Complex Members Angeles Daunting Los Los Angeles Social Capital Gang Gangs
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. Greg Boyle
God Best Heart Humanity Words Own Meets Our Find Restriction Vastness Expansive Hold Rhyme Moments
Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime. Greg Boyle
Crime Responsive Both Policing Reactive Still Expectations Efforts Proactive Lower Ever Necessary Need
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. Greg Boyle
Heart Victim Society Ability Civilized Civilized Society Highest Vengeance Hallmark Hold Which Compassionate
Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services. Greg Boyle
Hope Health Mental Health Result Police Algorithm Those Mental Delivery Heal Does Health Services Foreign Exist Metro Predictions Infuse Traumatized Whom Services
Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one. Greg Boyle
Life Me Member Would Never Same Different Wanting Different Life Gang
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