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As Gill says, "every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist." The small family farm is one of the la...more

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We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, ...more

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Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "L...more

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My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means t...more

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We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased th...more

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As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There is work...more

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[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our ...more

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Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -...more

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Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is ...more

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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinar...more

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We are working well when we use ourselves as the fellow creatures of the plants, animals, materials, and other people we are working with. Such work i...more

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The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into...more

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Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor...more

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It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a neg...more

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The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particul...more