Kerry

“Homeboy receives people; it doesn’t rescue them. In being received rather than rescued, gang members come to find themselves at home in their own skin.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“See how they love one another.” Not a bad gauge of health. “There was no needy person among them.” A better metric would be hard to find. There is one line that stopped me in my tracks: “And awe came upon everyone.” It would seem that, quite possibly, the ultimate measure of health in any community might well reside in our ability to stand in awe at what folks have to carry rather than in judgment at how they carry it.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“Telling people not to wonder why goes against the very nature our Creator put within us. As soon as a child begins to explore the world and experience new things, they learn by asking, “Why?” The whole point of getting an education is learning how to answer the question, “Why?” When the Prophets of Allah criticized people for worshiping idols the fastest way of getting them to see the absurdity of worshiping rocks and stones was asking them, “Why?”
― Arshad Anwar, You Are Muslim Enough

“Let's aim for the moon, walk in the darkness together, and catch the glittering stars along the way.”
― Aisha Chaudhary, My Little Epiphanies