I

Honesty means giving your heart to God, not being false toward God in anything, being open with Him in all things, never hiding the facts, not trying to deceive those above and below you, and not doing things that are merely attempts to curry favor with God. In short, to be honest is to be pure in your actions and words, and to deceive neither God nor man. If your words are riddled with excuses and valueless justifications, then I say that you are someone who is loath to put the truth into practice.

II

If you have many private matters that are difficult to speak of, if you’re highly averse to laying bare your secrets—your difficulties—before others to seek the way of the light, then I say that you are someone who will have great difficulty attaining salvation, and who will have difficulty emerging from the darkness. If you really enjoy seeking the way of the truth, then you are someone who dwells always in the light.

III

If you are very glad to be a service-doer in the house of God, working diligently and conscientiously in obscurity, always giving and never taking, then I say that you are a loyal saint, because you seek no reward and are simply being an honest person. If you’re willing to be candid and expend your all, if you can sacrifice your life for God and stand firm in your testimony, if you are honest to the point where you know only to satisfy God and not to consider yourself or take for yourself, then I say that such people are those who are nourished in the light and who shall live forever in the kingdom.

from The Word, Vol. 1. The Appearance and Work of God. Three Admonitions