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.

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

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.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

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

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

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