I see life as both a gift and a responsibility. My responsibility is to use what God has given me to help His people in need.

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

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. It’s what it does for people on the inside. It’s that intangible quality of hope. Many people without decent housing consider themselves life’s losers. This is the first victory they may have ever had. And it changes them. We see Habitat homeowners go back to school and get their GEDs, enter college, do all kinds of things they never believed they could do before they moved into their house. By their own initiative, through their own pride and hope, they change.

The theology of the hammer embraces wholeheartedly the idea that the love of God and love of man must be blended. The word and the deed must come together. One without the other is devoid of meaning … As the deed gets closer to the word, God gets closer to us. The results are always wonderful — and sometimes spectacular!