Ashley

“Our culture is hostile only to the inauthentic living of the gospel. It sniffs out hypocrisy everywhere and knows when Christians aren’t taking seriously, what Jesus took seriously. It is, by and large, hostile to the right things. It actually longs to embrace the gospel of inclusion and nonviolence, of compassionate love and acceptance. Even atheists cherish such a prospect.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“Jesus was not a man for others. He was one with others. There is a world of difference in that. Jesus didn't seek the rights of lepers. He touched the leper even before he got around to curing him. He didn't champion the cause of the outcast. He was the outcast. He didn't fight for improved conditions for the prisoner. He simply said, 'I was in prison.'

The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place—with the outcast and those relegated to the margins.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“Living the gospel, then, is less about “thinking outside the box” than about choosing to live in this ever-widening circle of inclusion.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“Generosity in Buddhism is to be relieved of the “stain of stinginess.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship