The Buddha said: ‘One who studies the Buddha’s Way should believe in and accord with all that the Buddha says. When you eat honey, it is sweet on the surface and sweet in the center; it is the same with my sutras.’ (S42 #39)

“The Buddha spoke the sutras to cause all of us living beings
To go back to the origin and return to the source,
To turn away from confusion and take refuge with enlightenment.

That is also:
To turn our backs
on the mundane dust
And unite with enlightenment.

Otherwise, if no living beings listened to the sutras the Buddha spoke, the sutras would be useless. Therefore, if there were no living beings, there would be no sutras; and without sutras, there would be no way to teach living beings to become Buddhas.” (FAS-PII(1) 23)

經 [jīng] ; sūtra ; sutta