“It is a great promise that to the temples God will come,
and that in them man shall see God. What does this promised communion mean?
Does it mean that once in a while God may come into the temples, and that once
in a while the pure in heart may see God there; or does it mean the larger
thing, that the pure in heart who go into the temples, may, there, by the
Spirit of God, always have a wonderfully rich communion with God? I think that
is what it means to me and to you and to most of us. We have gone into these
holy houses, with our minds freed from the ordinary earthly cares, and have
literally felt the presence of God. In this way, the temples are always places
where God manifests himself to man and increases his intelligence. A temple is
a place of revelation” (Elder John A Widtsoe, in “Temple Worship,” The Utah
Genealogical and Historical Magazine, vol. 12 [April 1921], 56).
