749. An Apostle Shares What Santa Claus and the Temple Have in Common.
An Apostle Shares What Santa Claus and the Temple Have in Common by Boyd K. Packer, excerpted from "The Holy Temple" | Nov. 30, 2016 Makes You Think Mormon Life President Packer's book, The Holy Temple , is a classic of LDS literature that has become one of the most comprehensive and definitive works written about temples. In fact, much of the material found in the Church's temple preparation pamphlet comes from this inspired book. The following is an excerpt from this book, where President Packer shares insights from John A. Widtsoe of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostle's and his groundbreaking talk, "Temple Worship." The reason the teaching of the gospel ofttimes is so difficult is that ideals in the gospel are such intangible things as faith, repentance, love, humility, reverence, obedience, modesty, and so forth. The dimensions of size and shape and color and texture just do not serve us there. In teachi...