Who in actuality is striving earnestly to share Nichiren Buddhism with others? Who is working wholeheartedly to spread our movement for kosen-rufu? It is our members, all ordinary people from different walks of life, with our women’s division members in the forefront.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 358 Women’s Division Founded (1951)

Daisaku Ikeda

In your respective communities and societies, you are volunteering your time and energy to chant and work for the members’ happiness, to support and encourage them with heartfelt care and concern. Your actions are those of great bodhisattvas; your spirit, that of noble Buddhas.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 3, revised edition, p. 176

Daisaku Ikeda

One effective response to stress is to meet it by stepping forward and taking action. In that sense, our actions based on faith in the Gohonzon are actions for reviving and reinvigorating ourselves in perfect accord with the Law of life.
>From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 1, revised edition, p. 280

Daisaku Ikeda