Greg Boyle Quotes

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Greg Boyle

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : May 19, 1954

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.

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Kids are different from adults. They are not as developed as far as brain science, controlling impulses, and maturity, and fall prey to all kinds of pressures.

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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.

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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.

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The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.

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Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

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I spent the summers of 1984 and 1985 as an associate pastor at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in the Los Angeles archdiocese. In 1986, I became pastor of the church.

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We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

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I founded Homeboy Industries in 1988 after I buried my first young person killed in our streets because of gang violence.

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

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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.

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

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God can get tiny if we're not careful.

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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.'

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I've never met an evil person ever.

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I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.

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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.

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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.

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The business of second chances is everybody's business.

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