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

Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important because the alternative is disgraceful. We must begin to think like this. If we do, we will increasingly see transformations in our communities.

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

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.

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

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!

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