G. K. Chesterton on God and Work

G. K. Chesterton viewed the making of products for personal use as one of the highest goods. The true path to happiness, according to Chesterton, is the self-sufficient home where the family produces goods for themselves. God is to be praised because he is the maker of things.

And this experience had made me profoundly sceptical of all the modern talk about the necessary dullness of domesticity; and the degrading drudgery that only has to make puddings and pies. Only to make things? There is no greater thing to be said of God Himself than that He makes things. The manufacturer cannot even manufacture things; he can only pay to have them manufactured

The Autobiography of G. K Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton.