It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.

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.

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

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

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