The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice

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 the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that "to work is to pray." (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)
----Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays