A biography for Greg Boylehasn’t been written yet.
“I feel called to be faithful.”
“I think not everything that works helps, and not everything that helps works.”
“As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.”
“The highest religious and spiritual ideals of any faith would invite us to a compassion for all lives destroyed by the violence that plagues us.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“I do believe in lessons learned. I have learned that you work with gang members and not with gangs; otherwise, you enforce the cohesion of gangs and supply them oxygen.”
“Showing up in the lives of children is everything.”
“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.'”