Birth: January 3, 1935 Death: February 3, 2009
Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out..
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts..
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 pe….
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 tog….
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 ….
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other..
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..
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….
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay..
Faith without works is as dead as a doornail..
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 dece….
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….
Our mandate in Habitat for Humanity is to work diligently to help bring into being graceful communities, towns, and cities. his is so important becau….
Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships….
We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it..
The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away..
I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it..