"Thereupon the Buddha addressed Maitreya Bodhisattva-Mahasattva: Ajita! Those living beings who have heard that the lifetime of the buddha is of such long duration and have been able to receive but one thought of faith and discernment---the merits they will obtain are beyond limit and measure, Suppose there be a good son or good daughter who, for the sake of Perfect enlightenment, during eight hundred thousand kotis of nayutas of kalpas practices the five paramitas: dana paramita(donation), sila paramita(keeping the precepts), kshanti paramita(perseverence),virya paramita(assiduity), and dhyana paramita(meditation), prajna paramita being excepted(wisdom); these merits compared with the above mentioned merits are not equal to even the hundreth part, the thousandth part, or one part of a hundred thousand myriad of kotis of it; indeed, neither numbers nor comparisons can make it known. If any good son or good daughter possesses such merits as this, there is no such thing as failing[to obtain] Perfect Enlightenment."(Lotus Sutra Chapter 17).
Witnessing the Truth of the Essential Services of the Kempon Hokke reads:
"Those who shall receive and keep the Name of Hokke (Lotus Sutra)", 'Namu Myoho renge kyo, the Three Great Secret Dharmas of the Original Doctrine, the Actual 'One Thought is Three thousand Realms', which we with single-minded sincerity and devotion have chanted aloud, "have merit which cannot be measured." "The Causal practices and the Virtues of the Effect of Buddhahood of Lord Shakya are fully possessed in the Five Characters "Myo ho ren ge kyo," When we receive and keep these Five Characters, He spontaneously yields and gives to us the merit of those causes and effect." "Because it is All Dharmas, which, once heard, one can keep, then although we have not yet been able to practice the Six Perfections(Paramitas), the Six Perfections are spontaneously before us." The Sea of All the Karmic Hindrances all arises from wrong thought; if you desire to repent of them, then sitting upright, think upon Reality. The Mass of sins is like frost and dew. The Sun of Wisdom can melt them away." Do not doubt the Golden Words of the Buddha with personal disbelief. If our mind of faith is fervent, profound and serious, what we have vowed for the two eras of the present and the future must certainly be perfectly fulfilled."