Greg Boyle Quotes

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

I deeply believe in many Christian values: love people; do the right thing; know that there's good in everyone, that God's looking out for all of us.

God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

God is love.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

My message is that God is a good God.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed, opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

Our best selves tell us that 'there but for the grace of God... ' and that, in the end, there is no distance, really, between us and them. It is just us. Our best and noble hope is to imitate the God we believe in. The God who has abundant room in God's grief and heart for us all.

God is love, and love is love.

I'm a Christian, and I forgive people. That's the mature thing to do.

We all need grace. We all need Christ.