ONE FAMILY PLAN
The People's Need
"The mind of the wise is free but tuned to people's need." (Taoism, Tao Te Ching 49)
"In good deeds, pure of heart, lies real religion." (SHINTO, Genchi Kato)
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27)
"Heaven is not attained without good deeds." (Sikhism, Adi Granth, Ramkali-ki-Var, M.1, p. 952)
"Many garlands can be made from a heap of flowers. Many good deeds should be done by one born a mortal." (Buddhism, Dhammapada 53)
"Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven." (Matthew 5.16)
"Everyone has a goal to which they turn, so vie with one another in good works." (Qur'an 2.148)
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." (Christianity, Ephesians 2.10)
"Good deeds will receive the doer who has gone from here to the next world, as kinsmen receive a dear friend on his return."(Buddhism, Dhammapada 220)
"No one who does good deeds will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. When such people die, they go to other realms where the righteous live." (Hinduism, Bhagavad Gita 6.40-41)
"The good deed that is done not in return, but in the first instance, is more precious than anything in this world or beyond. Nothing can repay that act." (Hinduism, Tirukkural 101-102)
"The touchstone which discloses one's greatness or smallness is simply this-one's deeds." (Hinduism, Tirukkural 505)
"Be mindful of your duty [to God], and do good works; and again, be mindful of your duty, and believe; and once again: be mindful of your duty, and do right. God loves the doers of good." (Islam, Qur'an 5.93)
"These are things whose fruits people enjoy in this world, while the capital is laid up for them in the world to come: honoring father and mother, deeds of lovingkindness, making peace between neighbors." (Judaism, Jerusalem Talmud Pe'ah 1.1)
"Love covers a multitude of sins." (Christianity, 1 Peter 4.8)
"Good deeds annul evil deeds. This is a reminder for the mindful."(Islam, Qur'an 11.114)
"Whoever, by a good deed, covers the evil done, such a one illumines this world like the moon freed from clouds." (Buddhism, Dhammapada 173)
"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue: Gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." (Confucianism, Analects 17.6)
"I call heaven and earth to witness: whether Jew or Gentile, whether man or woman, whether servant or freeman, they are all equal in this: that the Holy Spirit rests upon them in accordance with their deeds!" (Judaism, Midrash, Seder Eliyyahu Rabbah 10)
"Anything evil refrain from doing; all good deeds do! So will you be released forever from the influence of evil stars, and always be encompassed by good guardian angels." (Taoism, Tract of the Quiet Way)
"The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive." (Taoism, Tao Te Ching 8)
"He who carries out one good deed acquires for himself one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity." (Judaism. Mishnah, Abot 4.13)
"When the earth is shaken with her earthquake and the earth yields up her burdens, and man says, 'What ails her?' That day she will relate her chronicles because your Lord inspires her. That day mankind will issue forth in scattered groups to be shown their deeds. And whoever has done good, an atom's weight will see it then, and whoever has done ill, an atom's weight will see it then."(Islam. Qur'an 99)
"Realization of Truth is higher than all else; Higher still is truthful living." (Sikhism, Adi Granth, Sri Ashtpadi, M.1, p. 62)
"What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill- clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and filled' without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, without works, is dead. But someone will say, 'You have faith and I have works.' Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe--and shudder. Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, and the scripture was fulfilled which says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness'; and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.... For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead." (Christianity, James 2.14-26)
"'HE DEFENDED THE CAUSE OF THE POOR AND NEEDY, and so all went well. IS THAT NOT WHAT IT MEANS TO KNOW ME?' declares the LORD." (Jer 22:16)
"For I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE me something to eat, I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE me something to drink, I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU INVITED ME IN, I NEEDED CLOTHES AND YOU CLOTHED ME, I WAS SICK AND YOU LOOKED AFTER ME, I WAS IN PRISON AND YOU CAME TO VISIT ME." (Matthew 25:35-36) "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME." (Matthew 25:40, KJV)
