The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other.

Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.

Nobody loves a good worship service more than I do, but we are called to make religion real, to make our faith come alive. Helping others have a decent place to live is one way to do that and it doesn't take too long for others to recognize it, too.

Everyone—all of us, every last person on God’s earth—deserves decent shelter. It speaks to the most basic of human needs—our home—the soil from which all of us, every last person, either blossom or wither. We each have need of food, clothing, education, medical care, and companionship; but first, we must have a place to live and grow.