Greg Boyle Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.”

“The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.”

“We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.”

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

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

“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 know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.”

“The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.”

“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.”