M. Russell Ballard Quotes

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Tell the children the truth.

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Everything I say comes from my heart - and it's the truth.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

I'm not one for lying to children.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

Once you realize that what I’m saying is true and comes from the heart, then it’s easy. But if you see it all as a façade and just a presentation of affected emotion, then it’s not so easy, it’ll just confuse you.

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

A good heart cannot lye

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.