Working together with others is the best way to test our faith, to find out whether or not we are ready to live a life of Christian fellowship. Work is the crucial test of faith because such a life can come into being only where people work for love.
Love demands action, and the only really valid action is work.
Justice and love demand that everyone take part in simple practical work with a spade, hatchet, or rake. In this way it will be possible for each person s unique gifts to be kindled. The light that flickers within each heart will then exhibit its once-hidden glow in scholarly research or in music, in expressive words, in wood, or in stone. He has robbed work of its soul to such an extent that seventy-nine percent of all the operations in his industrial plants are performed by completely unskilled labor. Only twenty-one percent of all the workers, mechanics, and foremen he employs are allowed to put even a little thought and skill into his famous cars.