"If you want to produce Christian work, be a Christian, and try to make a work of beauty into which you have put your heart; do not adopt a Christian pose." ~Jacques Martin
The Church's approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables." ~ Dorothy Sayers
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Here are Wendell Berry's from
Given.
Sabbaths 2002
X.
Teach me work that honors Thy work,
the true economics of goods and words,
to make my arts compatible
with the songs of the local birds.
Teach me patience beyond work
and beyond patience, the blest
Sabbath of Thy unresting love
which lights all things and gives rest.
Bonnie
That carpenter should also remember his mandate to care for widows.
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