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.

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

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

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!

This is God's work. It makes blisters and it makes sweat, but it's worth my time and it's worth your time....Working together as God's people in the world-I don't know of anything more rewarding.

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

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