Greg Boyle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love.
-- Greg Boyle

#Eye #Acceptance #Empathy
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.
-- Greg Boyle

#Compassion #Challenges #Stories
Even gang members imagine a future that doesnt include gangs.
-- Greg Boyle

#Gang #Imagine #Members
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.
-- Greg Boyle

#Laughing #Want #Prophetic
God can get tiny, if we're not careful.
-- Greg Boyle

#Tiny #Careful #Ifs

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want. If it were anything or anyone else, I could stand back and let him take it." His blue eyes gazed back at me. "But I can't let him have you.
On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
Empathy is the key to great stories.
It takes a great man to make a great listener
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Greg Boyle famous quotes

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