Millard Fuller Quotes

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

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

Millard Fuller
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.

Millard Fuller
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.

Millard Fuller
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.

Millard Fuller
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!

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

Millard Fuller
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.

Millard Fuller