I'm not sure that's true. A lot of Abrahamic religion is about prioritizing prayer over work. Over the physical world in general.

The original Abrahamic religion includes a day where you are expressly prohibited from doing anything that even remotely looks like work _every week_.

The earthy suffering to test your faith is all over the texts and their ethics.

Catholicism, however, changed the focus away from judgement based on what you did towards judgement based on what you believe. I don't know too much about Orthodox Christianity, but I have some vague sense that it is even more focused on belief (and piety) than on the notion of good work being the path to heaven.