So love cannot exist without truthful loving actions. Let this truth be clear to us. Let us see the explanations of the Fathers about the meaning of the two wings in the Davidic prayer. What is meant by labor is the life of Christian virtue and the works of love. We often misuse it in expressing feelings and emotions without incarnating these feelings in works and sacrifices.
Love is work.
What is meant by theoria is the vision of God. So by the works of love we get to know God and by these same works we abide in God and God abides in us. Work then is for our neighbor, and the theoria is about the contemplation of God. The love of the neighbor is the way that lifts us up to the love and the knowledge of God. The works of love are not offered to God in heaven but to our neighbor.