The Temple is where we climb high above the smoke and the fog of these earthly things

But [the temple] is where we climb high above the smoke and the fog of these earthly things ========================== Type of Quote: Quotes Categories: Temple Location: : Author: Harold B. Lee ========================== In March 1956, at the dedication of the Los Angeles California Temple, President Harold B. Lee repeated a father’s story about his son who had been assigned to fly dangerous missions during a war.“[The] father said to him, ‘Son, how were you able to get back safely to your home base … ?’ The boy said, ‘Oh, that is easy, Dad, I just fly the beam.’ But the father pursued the question by asking, ‘Suppose you have lost the beam and something has gone wrong with that radio equipment by which the flyer learns to fly his course.’ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘I would use my compass.’ ‘Well, suppose a shot has destroyed the compass; then what?’“The boy [pondered] thoughtfully and then he said, ‘Dad, I would begin to fly my plane higher and higher above the smoke and fog and dust of the earth until I got up where I could see the stars, and when I had flown that high, I would chart my course by the stars. That never failed and I could always find my way back home.’”President Lee continued: “Down here on the earth outside of His sacred presence there are the things that money can buy, there are the things that we call the honors of men and the things that we strive for and seem to think are most important. But [the temple] is where we climb high above the smoke and the fog of these earthly things and we learn to read by God’s eternal stars a course that will lead us safely back home.”Teachings of the Presidents of the Church Harold B. Lee, page 99
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