Greg Boyle quote: "When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God."

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

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

I'm the priest who has been mistaken for an ATM machine.
GREG BOYLE

Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want t...
GREG BOYLE

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: ki...
GREG BOYLE

In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is...
GREG BOYLE

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
GREG BOYLE

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop...
GREG BOYLE

My church is in the detention facilities where I preside and celebrate the Eucharist. To me that'...
GREG BOYLE

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fi...
GREG BOYLE

Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.
GREG BOYLE

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

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

I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that comm...
GREG BOYLE

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, ...
GREG BOYLE

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

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

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

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as m...
GREG BOYLE

I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, '...
GREG BOYLE

Jesus did not only serve the needs of the people, but truly hoped that the people and Jesus would be...
GREG BOYLE

Businesses have come and gone at Homeboy Industries. We have had starts and stops, but anything wort...
GREG BOYLE

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.
GREG BOYLE

You are so much more than the worst thing you've ever done.
GREG BOYLE

We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if ...
GREG BOYLE

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a s...
GREG BOYLE

Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connecti...
GREG BOYLE

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in...
BOYLE ROCHE

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames th...
HAL BOYLE

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where ...
HAL BOYLE

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean...
DANNY BOYLE

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it...
HAL BOYLE

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get wh...
HAL BOYLE

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.
DANNY BOYLE

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as...
ROBERT BOYLE

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful tha...
DANNY BOYLE

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could...
FRANKIE BOYLE

Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
DANNY BOYLE

Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a techn...
JAMES BOYLE

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, thi...
ROBERT BOYLE

It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty an...
WILLARD BOYLE

The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both chall...
ROBERT BOYLE

I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off ...
SUSAN BOYLE

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let ...
SUSAN BOYLE

Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed wi...
BRIAN BOYLE

I moved out to give Brock an option. I had my back to the net, so I just shot it to an area.
BRIAN BOYLE

He was back to his old form.
BRIAN BOYLE

It's obviously a big game. There is just a little more incentive for me because I went there for a y...
BRIAN BOYLE

He [Bishop] played a tremendous game for them.
BRIAN BOYLE

I cheated a little and spit some out on the table because I was going to throw up.
BRIAN BOYLE

I wish I could give you an answer.
BRIAN BOYLE

I just looked at myself in the mirror and said, 'This isn't the player I am. I need to do better, .....
BRIAN BOYLE

The Monmouth-Ocean area is . . . always in the best-areas-to-live (lists),
BRIAN BOYLE

I'm not sure what can be told to them.
BRIAN BOYLE

I guess it helps to keep busy.
BOB BOYLE

You used to look out this front window and there was nothing but woods and fields between here and N...
BOB BOYLE

It (winning the tournament) was great for the fans; everybody had a lot of fun.
BOB BOYLE

Denny Baker had been a starter but he broke his leg. It was during a game; he came down on it wrong....
BOB BOYLE

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
BOYLE ROCHE

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
BOYLE ROCHE

How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
BOYLE ROCHE

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
BOYLE ROCHE

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
BOYLE ROCHE

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever...
BOYLE ROCHE

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic "No."
BOYLE ROCHE

While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
BOYLE ROCHE

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
BOYLE ROCHE

I hope they will come back and just focus on solving the problems of how to pay for our schools and ...
CAROLYN BOYLE

People are glad that there's going to be a change.
CAROLYN BOYLE

If it's all about money, if our entire Texas Legislature is just kind of up for bid to who can put t...
CAROLYN BOYLE

There were many tie votes in the Texas House in 2005 on critical education bills, so a new Austin le...
CAROLYN BOYLE

School boards have to work together, so they're used to bringing all opinions to the table and tryin...
CAROLYN BOYLE

We learned that if you organize at the grass roots, you can beat the big boys.
CAROLYN BOYLE

Just a flood of money turned the tide for some people who probably were close to being beat.
CAROLYN BOYLE

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states o...
ROBERT BOYLE

Her bark is really worse than her bite. So you know, she's very effective at barking.
TIM BOYLE

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as fl...
DANNY BOYLE

It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
DANNY BOYLE

That's an awful call; he didn't fall because of me. Some of those penalties were very, very question...
DAN BOYLE

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
BOYLE ROCHE

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I l...
DANNY BOYLE

Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Exp...
WILLARD BOYLE

I found that my career at Bell Telephone Labs thrived because of the environment, which encouraged c...
WILLARD BOYLE

My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a di...
DANNY BOYLE

The embassy has confirmed at least trace amounts of anthrax in one of the five mailbags
MICHAEL BOYLE

Overall, the market does not like indecision.
PATRICK BOYLE

When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 mark...
JIM BOYLE

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's T...
FRANKIE BOYLE

What if we ceased to pledge our allegiance to the bottom line and stood, instead, with those who lin...
GREGORY BOYLE

Human beings are settlers, but not in the pioneer sense. It is our human occupational hazard to sett...
GREGORY BOYLE

I want them to be excited about being there, but not satisfied. It's like what (athletic director) S...
JOANNE BOYLE

Well, I have had so many wake-up calls, but finally you wake up. I finally woke up.
PETER BOYLE

Kohl's exclusive Daisy Fuentes brand has become a favorite of our customers with its contemporary st...
JACK BOYLE

At Kohl's, our objective is to provide great fashions to our customers to help transform the way the...
JACK BOYLE

Our first priority was to get all of the students' equipment out of there, as much as we could, for ...
JACK BOYLE

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
BOYLE ROCHE

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It...
DANNY BOYLE

Mr. St. Maur will help me make a most excellent match. Perhaps you should retain him as well."
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ELIZABETH BOYLE

being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses
MEGAN BOYLE

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the ...
WILLARD BOYLE

The parts of the metropolitan area are so interdependent, in so many ways, that nobody is being help...
KEVIN BOYLE

I don't see much difference between it and the other films though I can see on a rational and intell...
DANNY BOYLE

Just kind of waiting out to hear the locals' chatter, rather than wait to hear everything from the p...
KEVIN BOYLE

I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'
BOYLE ROCHE

It was a terrible call. At that point of the game, I just lifted the guy's stick (Patrick Eaves) and...
DAN BOYLE

We've had such a tremendous year and we want to put some icing on that cake.
ERIC BOYLE

Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 The gosp...
ROBERT BOYLE

We'd like to stabilize the taxpayer subsidy which you know has risen over the past ten years, ideall...
DAN BOYLE

We can spend it on spay and neuter, we can spend it on the general fund, or second chance. Now that ...
LISA BOYLE

I have absolutely no hang-ups about modeling nude. I think if the pictures are really tasteful and c...
LISA BOYLE

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for m...
KAY BOYLE

sort of to reintroduce life into the country, ... So that's the premise of it. It's got a good idea ...
DANNY BOYLE

The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
BOYLE ROCHE

At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
BOYLE ROCHE

i wish cats could float around your head
MEGAN BOYLE

i wish i had 15-20 cats that would serve as a blanket, like if i moved they would adjust to my new p...
MEGAN BOYLE

It won't be the people who were in the first one, They're too busy. Naomie Harris is doing [the sequ...
DANNY BOYLE

I likened my arrival to Paris as a pilgrimage.
KAY BOYLE

Brian is a fabulous player, a tough kid and a very good passer. I've seen him grow stronger and toug...
KEVIN BOYLE

Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unkn...
MEGAN BOYLE

Whatever happened to that old-fashioned Grandpa? If he still survives, he must be hiding in the smal...
HAL BOYLE

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ...
HAL BOYLE

We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the hu...
HAL BOYLE

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I j...
HAL BOYLE

Does Grandpa love to babysit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormon...
HAL BOYLE

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
HAL BOYLE

It was then that my gaze happened to fall on the bookcase, on the gap there, where the old paperback...
T.C. BOYLE

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and one's a little boy of eight in Manchester, ...
DANNY BOYLE

With the acquisition of Pacific Trail, we continue to strengthen our portfolio of authentic, outdoor...
TIM BOYLE

My assistant told me to keep my composure, but I hadn't said anything all game and I wanted them to ...
ERIC BOYLE

Earning money from, and supporting, a system that keeps these people in poverty in the first place a...
MARK BOYLE

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.
T.C. BOYLE

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.
PETER BOYLE

The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restric...
JAMES BOYLE

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. Peopl...
DANNY BOYLE

Although it's just one point we gained on them, it's better than none or losing one. Hopefully this ...
DAN BOYLE

people like to see will smith reacting to aliens
MEGAN BOYLE

I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: l...
T.C. BOYLE

To all my enemies, I will destroy you.
FRANKIE BOYLE

To all my enemies, I will destroy it.
FRANKIE BOYLE

If our primary concern is results, we will choose to work only with those who give us good ones.
GREGORY BOYLE

There aren't the types of resources to rebuild this city in the billions of dollars. I don't know th...
KIM BOYLE

Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without ...
ROBERT BOYLE

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.
SUSAN BOYLE

I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
DANNY BOYLE

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about the...
DANNY BOYLE

It's going to be a shared space. Our primary data centers in San Jose and Sterling, Virginia are NTT...
DENNIS BOYLE

Once you kind of end the money chase, elected officials are far less susceptible to some of the attr...
MARY BOYLE

We played three great quarters and forgot to finish the fourth quarter, and on Monday we turned in o...
ERIC BOYLE

After the game I told the kids to laugh it up, but Monday a whole new season starts with a lot of ex...
ERIC BOYLE

You can't take a night off in the CIML. This is what happens.
ERIC BOYLE

That last 5 minutes in the game, we're going to need to get that into a bottle and drink from it the...
ERIC BOYLE

Thank goodness this isn't the end of February.
ERIC BOYLE

I thought that was the biggest swing.
ERIC BOYLE

When you're offense is based around her, it's hard to get the looks you want. I thought our kids did...
ERIC BOYLE

We called for the intentional foul but they couldn't hear us. Thirty seconds go by and we pretty muc...
ERIC BOYLE

We could get attorney's fees, and my value is $300 per hour. The longer the case goes on, the greate...
ELIZABETH BOYLE

My opinion is that if tenants have six months left on their leases, the management company should pa...
ELIZABETH BOYLE

Our theory is that the owners have to give tenants 60 days' notice before the end of an annual term ...
ELIZABETH BOYLE

I can't say anything about it because I haven't seen it. I don't think Michael has seen it yet eithe...
BRIDGET BOYLE

They were just trying to figure out, as I have done for the last year and a half, who did what to Ju...
BRIDGET BOYLE

In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole...
T.C. BOYLE

I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one b...
FRANKIE BOYLE

We're not only providing for the Payson Humane Society, but we're keeping tons and tons and tons of ...
LISA BOYLE

I love it. The first time they turned it on and the cans shot down that chute the hair stood up all ...
LISA BOYLE

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as...
DANNY BOYLE

The Beach.
DANNY BOYLE

There's a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the g...
DANNY BOYLE

We needed some confidence here and hopefully this is a step in the right direction and let's start p...
DAN BOYLE

It went in very, very slowly ... it was slow motion. I'm pretty excited it went in.
DAN BOYLE

I don't think (it's too early to start thinking about the standings). It's a team we've got to beat ...
DAN BOYLE

That's the good thing. My folks were down for three months up until playoffs started, so I can be th...
DAN BOYLE

It's a tough situation. One-third of the house is burned down. I lost a lot of my belongings, my clo...
DAN BOYLE

I did a couple of interviews with you guys right after and I still didn't know. On the way to the tr...
DAN BOYLE

Right now we're struggling. We're not controlling the puck.
DAN BOYLE

They're big pieces of our team. The changes in the game are going to benefit guys like that who can ...
DAN BOYLE

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Righ...
DANNY BOYLE

We're going to enjoy this for as long as we can.
DAN BOYLE

I think life is a lot different for alternative kids nowadays. Texting and the internet mean that be...
FRANKIE BOYLE

I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one b...
FRANKIE BOYLE

If you read Scripture scholar Marcus Borg and go to the index in search of 'sinner,' it'll say, 'see...
GREGORY BOYLE

It's stressful for a coach in the CIML. You've got to be ready every night.
ERIC BOYLE

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
DANNY BOYLE

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduce...
DANNY BOYLE

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that m...
DANNY BOYLE

I expect that you are going to see people now asking for Wisconsin to reinstate the death penalty be...
GERALD BOYLE

It is going to be a very, very interesting case and I think it is going to rise and fall on the stre...
GERALD BOYLE

First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and bet...
T.C. BOYLE

Having watched their children grow up with a keyboard at their fingertips, parents know that their k...
JAMES BOYLE

A lot of people have the mistaken assumptions that they have to have a 529 plan for college savings,...
JAMES BOYLE

Many young artists today only experience copyright as an obstacle, a source of incomprehensible dema...
JAMES BOYLE

It was always a long shot.
JAMES BOYLE

I don't think I ever saw her.
JAMES BOYLE

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a...
T.C. BOYLE

We had our own carpenters and electricians; we have a very capable staff.
JACK BOYLE

i want to interrupt a game of magic the gathering by busting through a wall on a motorcycle
MEGAN BOYLE

Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket?
T.C. BOYLE

i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people use...
MEGAN BOYLE

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

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Greg Boyle

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

Greg Boyle

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