Top 53 Quotes by Greg Boyle

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.

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

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.

I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.

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.

At its best, an injunction creates a kind of vigilant heat that moves kids toward the light.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

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

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

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.