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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.