Elder Dallin H. Oaks cited President David O. McKay, who taught: “Mere compliance with the word of the Lord, without a corresponding inward desire, will avail but little. Indeed, such outward actions and pretending phrases may disclose hypocrisy, a sin that Jesus most vehemently condemned” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1951, p. 6, cited in Oaks, Pure in Heart, 33).
Elder Oaks concluded, “There are no blessings in supposedly good acts that are performed for the wrong reasons” (Pure in Heart, 33).