Greg Boyle

The business of second chances is everybody's business. ”

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

Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.' ”

There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes. ”

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.' ”

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it. ”

You don't really get Jesus saying very often there'll be pie in the sky when you die. He's really talking about now and today, and it's supposed to be like that. You're supposed to delight in what's right in front of you. ”

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is. ”

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. ”

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries. ”