Only with all-out effort, with the determination to create something from nothing, can we understand genuine faith. The intense, arduous struggle of creating value—turning loss into benefit, evil into good, baseness into beauty—is the Soka Gakkai spirit and the essence of our practice of Nichiren Buddhism.
From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 221
Daisaku Ikeda