M. Russell Ballard Quotes

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

Fear God and work hard.

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I appeal to the Latter-day Saints to be honest with the Lord, and I promise them that peace, prosperity and financial success will attend those who are honest with our Heavenly Father.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.

And when people give me their word, I listen to them.